This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable
robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of …

While expected applications of Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) span various workspaces,
scales, and structures, practical implementations of such systems lag behind their potentials …

Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low
cost. The paper presents examples and issues in realizing those promises. PolyBot is a …

We discuss a robotic module called a molecule. Molecules can be the basis for building self-
reconfiguring robots. They support multiple modalities of locomotion and manipulation. We …

In this paper the problem of dynamic self-reconfiguration of a class of modular robotic
systems referred to as metamorphic systems is examined. A metamorphic robotic system is a …

A unit-modular robot is a robot that is composed of modules that are all identical. In this
thesis we study the design and control of unit-modular dynamically reconfigurable robots …

Abstract Employing Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) in different application domains
confronts a large number of challenging problems in design, optimization, and planning, and …

A" modular" robotic system consists of standardized joint and link units that can be
assembled into a number of different kinematic configurations. Given a predetermined set of …

BACKGROUND Agents are Software entities. Many agents may run as processes in a single
computer. Agents may run in multi processors or in computers that are connected by a …

Industrial robots cannot be reconfigured to optimally fulfill a given task and often have to be
caged to guarantee human safety. Consequently, production processes are meticulously …