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Designing modular robotic playware [PDF]

RO-MAN 2009 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009
In this paper, we explore the design of modular robotic objects that may enhance playful experiences. The approach builds upon the development of modular robotics to create a kind of playware, which is flexible in both set-up and activity building for the end-user to allow easy creation of games.
Henrik Hautop Lund, Patrizia Marti
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Modular robot based on 3 rotational DoF modules [PDF]

, 2008
this paper shows the advantages of having a modular system with 3-DoF spherical actuator in the base module to perform tasks that require displacement and object manipulation.
R. Aracil, Baca Garcia, Jose Antonio, J. Baca, J.A. Escalera, Ferre Pérez, Manuel, M. Ferre, A. Yerpes, Aracil Santonja, Rafael, Yerpes, Ariadna, Escalera Piña, Juan Antonio   +9 more
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Nonlinear Modeling and Docking Tests of a Soft Modular Robot

IEEE Access, 2019
Soft modular robots have the advantages of both bionic continuum robots and modular self-reconfigurable robots. They have potential application for working in narrow space and uneven terrain.
Yu Zhang, Tianjiao Zheng, Jizhuang Fan, Ge Li, Yanhe Zhu, Jie Zhao   +5 more
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Learning modular policies for robotics [PDF]

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2014
A promising idea for scaling robot learning to more complex tasks is to use elemental behaviors as building blocks to compose more complex behavior. Ideally, such building blocks are used in combination with a learning algorithm that is able to learn to select, adapt, sequence and co-activate the building blocks.
Gerhard Neumann, Christian Daniel, Alexandros Paraschos, Andras Gabor Kupcsik, Jan Peters 0001   +4 more
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A Proposal for a Multi-Drive Heterogeneous Modular Pipe- Inspection Micro-Robot [PDF]

, 2008
This paper presents the architecture used to develop a micro-robot for narrow pipes inspection. Both the electromechanical design and the control scheme will be described. In pipe environments it is very useful to have a method to retrieve information of
Brunete González, Alberto, Torres Matesanz, José Emilio, Hernando Gutiérrez, Miguel, Gambao Galán, Ernesto   +3 more
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Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots Adaptively Transforming a Mechanical Structure: Algorithm for Adaptive Transformation to Load Condition

Journal of Robotics, 2011
Self-reconfigurable modular robots are composed of modules which are able to autonomously change the way they are connected. An appropriate control algorithm enables the modular robots to change their shape in order to adapt to their immediate ...
Yosuke Suzuki, Norio Inou, Hitoshi Kimura, Michihiko Koseki   +3 more
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Automatic Generation of Locomotion Patterns for Soft Modular Reconfigurable Robots

Applied Sciences, 2019
In recent years, soft modular robots have become popular among researchers with the development of soft robotics. However, the absence of a visual 3D simulation platform for soft modular robots hold back the development of the field.
Xin Sui, Hegao Cai, Dongyang Bie, Yu Zhang, Jie Zhao, Yanhe Zhu   +5 more
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Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2019
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 MRR systems have been presented to date, and these robots promise to be versatile, robust, and low cost compared with other conventional robot systems.
Seo, Jungwon, Paik, Jamie, Yim, Mark
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Variable Impedance Actuators: Moving the Robots of Tomorrow [PDF]

, 2012
Most of today's robots have rigid structures and actuators requiring complex software control algorithms and sophisticated sensor systems in order to behave in a compliant and safe way adapted to contact with unknown environments and humans.
Lefeber, D., Grioli, G., Haddadin, Sami, Stramigioli, S., A. Bicchi, Bicchi, Antonio, Carloni, R., Laffranchi, M., Haddadin, S., Jafari, A., Visser, L.C., Catalano, M.G., M. Catalano, Albu-Schäffer, Alin Olimpiu, Van Damme, M., F. Petit, Caldwell, D., M. Laffranchi, D. Caldwell, G. Ganesh, R. Carloni, Caldwell, D.G., Stramigioli, S.; id_orcid, Burdet, Etienne, Wolf, Sebastian, R. Van Ham, Garabini, M., B. Vanderborght, M. Grebenstein, S. Wolf, Catalano, M., Burdet, E., S. Haddadin, M. Garabini, Grebenstein, Markus, Ganesh, G., Vanderborght, B., D. Lefeber, M. Van Damme, Petit, F., Wolf, S., Van Ham, R., N. Tsagarakis, Albu-Schaeffer, A., Tsagarakis, N., Bicchi, A., E. Burdet, L. C. Visser   +47 more
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Modular Soft Robotics: Modular Units, Connection Mechanisms, and Applications

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020
A state‐of‐the‐art review of the modular soft robots (MSRs) is presented, with an outlook on the challenges and future directions of intelligent MSRs. In contrast to conventional robots composed of rigid materials, soft robots made from soft materials ...
Chao Zhang, Pingan Zhu, Yangqiao Lin, Zhongdong Jiao, Jun Zou   +4 more
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