Making self-disassembling objects with multiple components in the robot pebbles system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3614-3621

  Gilpin, Kyle ^a   Koyanagi, Kent ^b   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SHAPES; HOST MATERIALS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; NOVEL ALGORITHM; PROGRAMMABLE MATTER; SHAPE FORMATION; SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION; SOFTWARE SIMULATOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84864424433     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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