Anatomy-based organization of morphology and control in self-reconfigurable modular robots

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 787-805

  Christensen, David Johan ^a   Campbell, Jason ^b   Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Design abstraction; Distributed control; Hierarchical morphology and control; Modular self reconfigurable robots; Scalability; Versatility

Indexed keywords

DESIGN ABSTRACTIONS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL MORPHOLOGY AND CONTROL; MODULAR SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; VERSATILITY;

ABSTRACTING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MODULAR ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; SCALABILITY;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77955711989     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-010-0387-3     Document Type: Article

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