Cross-ball: A new morphogenetic self-reconfigurable modular robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 267-272

  Meng, Yan ^a   Zhang, Yuyang ^a   Sampath, Abhay ^a   Jin, Yaochu ^b   Sendhoff, Bernhard ^c  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D RECONFIGURATION; BIO-INSPIRED; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; HARDWARE PLATFORM; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MODULE DESIGN; SELF RECONFIGURATION; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE; SYSTEM RECONFIGURATION;

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 84871677019     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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