Design of a new independently-mobile reconfigurable modular robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2758-2764

  Kutzer, Michael D M ^a   Moses, Matthew S ^a   Brown, Christopher Y ^a   Scheidt, David H ^a   Chirikjian, Gregory S ^a   Armand, Mehran ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular and modular robots; Mechanism design of mobile robots; Robotics in hazardous fields

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AND MODULAR ROBOTS; COMPLEX TERRAINS; DOCKING MECHANISMS; ELECTRICAL INTERFACE; FLAT SURFACES; HIGH-TORQUE ACTUATORS; INTER-MODULE; MECHANISM DESIGN; MODULE STRUCTURE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; ROTARY MOTIONS; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SINGLE MODULES; SLIP RINGS;

DOCKING; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; VEHICLES; WHEELS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77955822796     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509726     Document Type: Conference Paper

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