Roombots - Towards decentralized reconfiguration with self-reconfiguring modular robotic metamodules

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1126-1132

  Sproewitz, Alexander ^a   Laprade, Philippe ^a   Bonardi, Stéphane ^a   Mayer, Mikaël ^a   Moeckel, Rico ^a   Mudry, Pierre André ^a,b   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST SIGNALS; LOOK UP TABLE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; STRUCTURED SURFACES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651476370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5649504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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