Complex systems consist of a large number of entities with their independent local rules and goals, along with their interactions. The effect of these properties tends to produce ...
Yongchang Li, Michael Balchanos, Bassem Nairouz, N...
—One of the grand challenges of self-reconfiguring modular robotics is the assembly of a functional system from thousands of components. However, to date, only systems comprised ...
— Stochastic self-reconfiguring robots are modular robots that possess the ability to autonomously change the arrangement of their modules and do so through the use of nondetermi...
Jonas Neubert, Abraham P. Cantwell, Stephane Const...
Virtual mannequins need to navigate in order to interact with their environment. Their autonomy to accomplish the navigation task is ensured by locomotion controllers. Control inp...
- This paper presents a new control method to drive an array of wet Shape Memory Alloy actuators utilizing a Matrix Manifold and Valve system (MMV). The MMV architecture allows a v...