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GECCO
2008
Springer
138views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Modular neuroevolution for multilegged locomotion
Legged robots are useful in tasks such as search and rescue because they can effectively navigate on rugged terrain. However, it is difficult to design controllers for them that ...
Vinod K. Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
ICRA
2009
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 3 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...
RAS
2006
129views more  RAS 2006»
13 years 5 months ago
Self-reconfigurable M-TRAN structures and walker generation
The M-TRAN is a modular robot capable of both three-dimensional self-reconfiguration and whole body locomotion. Introducing regularity in allowed structures reduced difficulties o...
Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, A...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
217views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
13 years 12 months ago
Modular software architecture for teams of cooperating, heterogeneous robots
— For teams of cooperating autonomous lightweight robots with challenging dynamical locomotion properties a platform independent modular software architecture and platform indepe...
Martin Friedmann, Jutta Kiener, Sebastian Petters,...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
91views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
PolyBot: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot
Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low cost. This paper presents examples and issues in realizing those promises. PolyBot is...
Mark Yim, David Duff, Kimon Roufas