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 …
E Bonabeau - Oxford University Press google schola, 1999 - books.google.com
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 …
M Yim, WM Shen, B Salemi, D Rus… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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” …
D Rus, M Vona - Autonomous Robots, 2001 - Springer
We discuss a robotic system composed of Crystalline modules. Crystalline modules can aggregate together to form distributed robot systems. Crystalline modules can move relative …
K Gilpin, A Knaian, D Rus - 2010 IEEE International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …
WM Shen, B Salemi, P Will - IEEE transactions on Robotics and …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self- reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic …