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APN
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
2007
Springer
We shall describe connections between Petri nets, quantum physics and category theory. The view of Net theory as a kind of discrete physics has been consistently emphasized by Carl...
IROS
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
— To understand the capabilities and behavior of a robot it is important to have knowledge about its physical structure and how its actuators control its shape. In this paper we ...
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SASO
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
— A reconfigurable robot is a robot that can change shape. Programming reconfigurable robots is complicated by the need to adapt the behavior of each of the individual module t...
SMA
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
2009
ACM
Over the last fifty years, there have been numerous efforts to develop from first principles a comprehensive discrete formulation of geometric physics, including Whitney’s ge...
ICRA
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
— We present a first attempt to accomplish a simple object manipulation task using the self-reconfigurable robotic system swarm-bot. The number of modular entities involved, th...