Sambot: A self-assembly modular robot system

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 745-757

  Wei, Hongxing ^a,b   Chen, Youdong ^a   Tan, Jindong ^b   Wang, Tianmiao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous docking; modular robot; self assembly; self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DOCKING; COMPUTING PLATFORM; CONTROL AREA NETWORK BUS; DISCRETE STATE; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; FLEXIBLE MODULES; INFRA-RED SENSOR; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MODULAR ROBOT SYSTEMS; POWER UNITS; ROBOTIC STRUCTURES; SELF RECONFIGURATION; ZIGBEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

DOCKING; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 79956129515     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2085009     Document Type: Article

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