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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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Reusable electronics and adaptable communication as implemented in the odin modular robot
Abstract— This paper describes the electronics and communication system of Odin, a novel heterogeneous modular robot made of links and joints. The electronics is divided into two...
Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia, Andreas Lyder, Davi...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Anatomy-based organization of modular robots
Abstract— This paper presents a novel biologicallyinspired hierarchical approach to organizing and controlling modular robots. The purpose of our approach is to decompose the com...
David Johan Christensen, Jason Campbell
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IROS
2008
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems
Abstract— We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool d...
Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella,...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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Distributed Watchpoints: Debugging Large Multi-Robot Systems
Abstract— Tightly-coupled multi-agent systems such as modular robots frequently exhibit properties of interest that span multiple modules. These properties cannot easily be detec...
Michael DeRosa, Jason Campbell, Padmanabhan Pillai...
ICANN
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Biasing Neural Networks Towards Exploration or Exploitation Using Neuromodulation
Abstract. Taking neuromodulation as a mechanism underlying emotions, this paper investigates how such a mechanism can bias an artificial neural network towards exploration of new ...
Karla Parussel, Lola Cañamero