Scalable self-assembly and self-repair in a collective of robots

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1484-1489

  Rubenstein, Michael ^a   Shen, Wei Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL METHODS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; SELF-REPAIR;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 76249098583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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