Emulating self-reconfigurable robots - Design of the SMORES system

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4464-4469

  Davey, Jay ^a   Kwok, Ngai ^a   Yim, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXISTING SYSTEMS; SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SELF-ASSEMBLING;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS;

PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS;

EID: 84872287640     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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