Stochastic control for self-assembly of xbots

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 2, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2008, Pages 1169-1176

  Ayanian, Nora ^a   White, Paul J ^a   Haĺaśz, Ad́aḿ ^a   Yim, Mark ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRUTE-FORCE APPROACH; CHEMICAL KINETICS SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; GILLESPIE ALGORITHM; GOAL CONFIGURATION; POSITION INFORMATION; STATE SPACE; STOCHASTIC CONTROL; STOCHASTIC METHODS;

ALGORITHMS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 81155138183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2008-49535     Document Type: Conference Paper

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