Roombots-mechanical design of self-reconfiguring modular robots for adaptive furniture

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4259-4264

  Sproewitz, Alexander ^a,d   Billard, Aude ^b,d   Dillenbourg, Pierre ^c,d   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a,d  

^a Bio Inspired Robotics Group

^b Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory

^c Centre de Recherche et d 'Appui pour la Formation

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; GRADIENT-FREE OPTIMIZATIONS; HARDWARE FRAMEWORK; LOCOMOTION PATTERNS; MERGING TECHNOLOGIES; STATIC STRUCTURES;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78751530680     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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