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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Coordinating collective locomotion in an amorphous modular robot
— Modular robots can potentially assemble into a wide range of configurations to locomote in different environments. However, designing locomotion strategies for each configura...
Chih-Han Yu, Justin Werfel, Radhika Nagpal
AROBOTS
1999
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13 years 4 months ago
Walking Robots and the Central and Peripheral Control of Locomotion in Insects
This paper outlines aspects of locomotor control in insects that may serve as the basis for the design of controllers for autonomous hexapod robots. Control of insect walking can b...
Fred Delcomyn
IROS
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Engineering self-adaptive modular robotics: A bio-inspired approach
— In nature, animal groups achieve robustness and scalability with each individual executes a simple and adaptive strategy. Inspired by this phenomenon, we propose a decentralize...
Chih-Han Yu, Radhika Nagpal
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Roombots-mechanical design of self-reconfiguring modular robots for adaptive furniture
We aim at merging technologies from information technology, roomware, and robotics in order to design adaptive and intelligent furniture. This paper presents design principles for ...
Alexander Spröwitz, Aude Billard, Pierre Dill...
ENC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-robot Motion Coordination based on Swing Propagation
A simple swing propagation mechanism for multi-robot motion coordination is presented. This mechanism is based on local-perception and low-level communication. It is oriented to c...
Maria Guadalupe Jimenez Velasco, Angélica M...