The world is becoming more digitized with the rise of modular robotic systems. Therefore,
with the increasing demands and needs for robotics, the modular robotic domain was …

Simulation is one of the most important tools for robotics research, as it serves several
crucial purposes such as prototyping, learning, avoiding dispensable hardware costs, or …

A modular robots is composed of many independent connected modules which are able to
achieve common goals through communications. A modular self-reconfigurable robot can …

Robotics research needs complex hardware and software that is why simulation is often
view as an alternative for testing. Large scale self-reconfiguring modular robotic systems …

Modular robots are autonomous systems with variable morphology, composed of
independent connected computational elements, called particles or modules. Due to critical …

Modular robots form autonomous distributed systems in which modules use communications
to coordinate their activities in order to achieve common goals. The complexity of distributed …

Many distributed algorithms require a specific role to be played by a leader, a single node in
the system. The choice of this node often has a direct impact on the performance. In …

In this paper, we propose an extension to the Blinky Block robot (named XBlock) by adding
wireless communication capabilities. This enables the creation of modular robots with …

As in all distributed systems, having an accurate access to a global notion of time is vital for
a modular robot's modules to coordinate their activities and accomplish their goal. In this …

In this paper, we propose the Modular Robot Time Protocol (MRTP), a network-wide time
synchronization protocol for modular robots (a class of distributed embedded systems) with …