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Route Swarm: Wireless Network Optimization through Mobility

, 2014
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel hybrid architecture for coordinating networked robots in sensing and information routing applications. The proposed INformation and Sensing driven PhysIcally REconfigurable robotic network (INSPIRE), consists of a ...
Gasparri, Andrea, Krishnamachari, Bhaskar, Williams, Ryan K.   +2 more
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Sustainable Catalyst‐Free PLG Networks: Recyclability, Biodegradability, and Functional Performance

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A catalyst‐additive free covalent adaptable network is developed from star‐shaped poly(lactide‐co‐glycolide) cross‐linked with pyromellitic dianhydride, enabling internal carboxylic acid‐driven transesterification. The resulting biodegradable network exhibits mechanical robustness (Young's modulus ≈1.6 GPa), complete recyclability, rapid biodegradation
Lars Schwarzer, Emilia Fulajtar, Seema Agarwal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fault Diagnosis of a Reconfigurable Crawling–Rolling Robot Based on Support Vector Machines

Applied Sciences, 2017
As robots begin to perform jobs autonomously, with minimal or no human intervention, a new challenge arises: robots also need to autonomously detect errors and recover from faults.
Karthikeyan Elangovan, Yokhesh Krishnasamy Tamilselvam, Rajesh Elara Mohan, Masami Iwase, Nemoto Takuma, Kristin L. Wood   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Programmable In‐Situ Interactions Between Resins and Photopolymerized Structures for Seamlessly Integrated Optical Manufacturing of Microlenses

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a dynamic interaction between liquid resins and photopolymerized structures enabled by an in situ light‐writing setup. By controlling a three‐phase interface through localized photopolymerization, which provides physical confinement for the remaining uncured resin regions, the approach establishes a programmable pathway that ...
Kibeom Kim, Sangmin Oh, Kahyun Hur, Hyesung Cho   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Constraint-based Mission Planning Approach for Reconfigurable Multi-Robot Systems

Inteligencia Artificial, 2018
The application of reconfigurable multi-robot systems introduces additional degrees of freedom to design robotic missions compared to classical multi-robot systems.
Thomas M Roehr
doaj   +1 more source

Accomplishing High-Level Tasks with Modular Robots

, 2018
The advantage of modular self-reconfigurable robot systems is their flexibility, but this advantage can only be realized if appropriate configurations (shapes) and behaviors (controlling programs) can be selected for a given task.
Jing, Gangyuan, Kress-Gazit, Hadas, Tosun, Tarik, Yim, Mark   +3 more
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Novel Functional Materials via 3D Printing by Vat Photopolymerization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Perspective systematically analyzes strategies for incorporating functionalities into 3D‐printed materials via Vat Photopolymerization (VP). It explores the spectrum of achievable functionalities in recently reported novel materials—such as conductive, energy‐storing, biodegradable, stimuli‐responsive, self‐healing, shape‐memory, biomaterials, and
Sergey S. Nechausov, Patrick Fesser, Boris A. Bulgakov, Ulrich S. Schubert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermo‐Mechanically Recyclable Smart Textiles from Circularly Knitted Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Reprogrammable multi‐material smart textiles knitted from liquid crystal elastomer fibers undergo 2D and 3D deformation under thermal and photo stimuli. Circularly knitted tubular structures reversibly contract in radial and axial directions, enabling autonomous climbing, liquid release, and micro pumping.
Xue Wan, Tongxiang Deng, Linda Plaude, Bo Gao, Siyao Chen, Fabien Sorin, Kaspar M. B. Jansen, Kun Zhou, Albert P. H. J. Schenning   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-reconfigurable multifunctional memristive nociceptor for intelligent robotics

Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
Artificial nociceptors, mimicking human-like stimuli perception, are of significance for intelligent robotics to work in hazardous and dynamic scenarios.
Shengbo Wang, Mingchao Fang, Lekai Song, Cong Li, Jian Zhang, Arokia Nathan, Guohua Hu, Shuo Gao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reconfiguration of 3D Crystalline Robots Using O(log n) Parallel Moves

, 2009
We consider the theoretical model of Crystalline robots, which have been introduced and prototyped by the robotics community. These robots consist of independently manipulable unit-square atoms that can extend/contract arms on each side and attach/detach
Aloupis, Greg, Collette, Sebastien, Demaine, Erik D., Langerman, Stefan, Sacristan, Vera, Wuhrer, Stefanie   +5 more
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