The distributed control and experiments of directional self-assembly for modular swarm robots

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4169-4174

  Wei, Hongxing ^a,b   Li, Dezhong ^a   Tan, Jindong ^b   Wang, Tianmiao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR-BASED; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL MODEL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; HUMAN INTERVENTION; ROBOT PLATFORM; ROBOTIC STRUCTURES; SELF-ASSEMBLY ALGORITHMS; SNAKE LIKES; STATE TABLES; SWARM ROBOTS; TARGET CONFIGURATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DOCKING; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651480298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650244     Document Type: Conference Paper

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