A reconfigurable machining system is usually a modularized system, and its configuration
design concerns the selections of modules and the determination of geometric dimensions …

As mobile robot teams become more complex, it is necessary to develop a control
architecture to manage the resources present in the team. The Distributed Field Robot …

This paper presents a concept and implementation of a toolbox for design and application of
tripod-based parallel kinematic machines (PKMs). The toolbox is a suite of design tools to …

In this paper the development of a low cost robotic vehicle for research and education is
presented. The vehicle was designed considering minimum cost and maximum capabilities …

This paper describes a multilayer, hybrid, distributed field robot architecture (DFRA) and its
integration with MATLAB that is capable of supporting simple and complex functionality of …

An important issue not addressed in the literature, is related to the selection of the fitness
function parameters which are used in the evolution process of fuzzy logic controllers for …

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a distributed robot architecture,
Distributed Field Robot Architecture. The approach taken in this thesis is threefold. First, the …

Design, implementation and experimental validation of a MATLAB based autonomous robot
control framework is presented, supported by, and integrated into a distributed field robot …

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine SEPTEMBER 2006 94 components of varying levels
of sophistication and development into a unified functional whole. For example, the pose …

This chapter introduces a reconfigurable tripod-based machine system. The objective is to
develop such a machine system that is capable of performing different machining tasks with …