Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2473-2478

  Tolley, Michael T ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDIC MANIPULATION; FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS; GRAND CHALLENGE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MODULE DESIGN; TARGET STRUCTURE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; ROBOTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955814994     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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