This article presents a summary of applications of chaos and fractals in robotics. Firstly,
basic concepts of deterministic chaos and fractals are discussed. Then, fundamental tools of …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving
systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents …

Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world,
including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace …

The field of modular self-reconfigurable robotic systems addresses the design, fabrication,
motion planning, and control of autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology …

In this paper, a novel robotic system called modular transformer (M-TRAN) is proposed. M-
TRAN is a distributed, self-reconfigurable system composed of homogeneous robotic …

This paper reviews several types of self-repairing systems developed in the Mechanical
Engineering Laboratory. We have developed a modular system capable of “self-assembly” …

We discuss a robotic system composed of Crystalline modules. Crystalline modules can
aggregate together to form distributed robot systems. Crystalline modules can move relative …

This paper describes the design, fabrication, and experimental results of a programmable
matter system capable of 2D shape formation through subtraction. The system is composed …

Presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-
reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic …