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IROS
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 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
AROBOTS
2000
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14 years 10 months ago
The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-Functional System
We wish for robots to manipulate objects and move flexibly in three-dimensional spaces. We describe a robot that can move on a web of surfaces oriented around arbitrary directions ...
Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus
ICRA
2002
IEEE
121views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
15 years 3 months ago
Modular Modeling and Analysis of a Distributed Production System with Distant Specialised Maintenance
This paper introduces a modular modeling approach for distributed production systems, considering production and maintenance processes synchronization. Thus, production job shop, p...
Daniel I. Racoceanu, Noureddine Zerhouni, Nawal Ad...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
150views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Fluidic manipulation for scalable stochastic 3D assembly of modular robots
—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 ...
Michael Thomas Tolley, Hod Lipson
ICRA
2000
IEEE
91views Robotics» more  ICRA 2000»
15 years 2 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