A distributed reconfiguration strategy for target enveloping with hexagonal metamorphic modules

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4804-4809

  Miao, Yizhou ^a   Yan, Gangfeng ^a   Lin, Zhiyun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED RECONFIGURATION; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84871681698     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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