A Distributed Algorithm for Reconfiguration of Lattice-Based Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Proceedings - 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-9

  Piranda, Benoit ^a   Bourgeois, Julien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithm; modular robots; self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; ROBOTS;

LATTICE-BASED; META-MODULE; MODULAR SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; SELF RECONFIGURATION; SLIDING MOTIONS; SLIDING MOVEMENTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 84968784371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PDP.2016.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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