In this paper, general requirements of next generation manufacturing systems are
discussed, and the strategies to meet these requirements are considered. The production …

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 …

We present RoboGrammar, a fully automated approach for generating optimized robot
structures to traverse given terrains. In this framework, we represent each robot design as a …

Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific
shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact …

A rapidly deployable manipulator system combines the flexibility of reconfigurable modular
hardware with modular programming tools, allowing the user to rapidly create and program …

This paper surveys various applications of artificial evolution in the field of modular robots.
Evolutionary robotics aims to design autonomous adaptive robots automatically that can …

Metamorphic robots are modular robots that can reconfigure their shape. Such capability is
desirable in tasks such as earthquake search and rescue and battlefield surveillance and …

Driven by the need to achieve superior control performances for robots with hyper degrees
of freedom, the virtual decomposition control approach is thoroughly presented in this book …

The field of evolutionary robotics has demonstrated the ability to automatically design the
morphology and controller of simple physical robots through synthetic evolutionary …

This paper presents a procedure and the results of an optimal design of the kinematic
structure of a manipulator to be used for autonomous cucumber harvesting in greenhouses …