The robot is the tether: Active, adaptive power routing for modular robots with unary inter-robot connectors

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4108-4115

  Campbell, Jason ^a,b   Pillai, Padmanabhan ^a   Goldstein, Seth Copen ^b  

^a INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular and modular robots; Distributed robots and systems; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTS; ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS; ENGAGEMENT ANGLE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MULTI-ROBOT COOPERATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; POWER STORAGE; SUBMILLIMETERS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78049288392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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