Towards energy homeostasis in an autonomous self-reconfigurable modular robotic organism

Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Adaptive, Content, Cognitive, Patterns, ComputationWorld 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 21-26

  Humza, Raja ^a   Scholz, Oliver ^a   Mokhtar, Maizura ^b   Timmis, Jon ^b   Tyrrell, Andy ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIS; Artificial immune system; Energy homeostasis; Self monitoring; Self reconfigurable modular robots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ENERGY; ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS; MODULAR ROBOTICS; POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; POWER MODULE; REAL-TIME DETECTION; ROBOTIC UNITS; SELF-MONITORING; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE;

BODY FLUIDS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ERROR DETECTION; HARVESTING; IMMUNOLOGY; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77951015859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.83     Document Type: Conference Paper

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