Survey on research and development of reconfigurable modular robots
This article presents a comprehensive survey of reconfigurable modular robots, which covers the origin, history, the state of the art, key technologies, challenges, and applications of reconfigurable modular robots.
Jinguo Liu, Xin Zhang, Guangbo Hao
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Special Issue on Reconfigurable Robots
Reconfigurable robots have the characteristics that structures can be changed or reorganized. They can adapt to different environments and tasks through changing configurations or structures, which is a hot research direction in recent years.
Jinguo Liu, Yuwang Liu, Guangbo Hao
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Intrinsically flexible multimode reconfigurable transistors for polymorphic circuits and neuromorphic devices [PDF]
Reconfigurable transistors hold considerable significance for both integrated circuits and neuromorphic electronics. At the same time, flexible electronics is developing rapidly, promoted by various emerging applications, such as wearable electronics and
Wanting Wang +12 more
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Micro/Nano-Reconfigurable Robots for Intelligent Carbon Management in Confined-Space Life-Support Systems [PDF]
Highlights The micro/nano-reconfigurable robots for life-support systems were fabricated by CO₂-capturing molecular hunters, temperature-sensitive molecular switches, and solar photothermal conversion/magnetically-driven dual function engines.
Wei Lu +7 more
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Efficient Modelling Methodology for Reconfigurable Underwater Robots [PDF]
This paper considers the challenge of applying reconfigurable robots in an underwater environment. The main result presented is the development of a model for a system comprised of N, possibly heterogeneous, robots dynamically connected to each other and
Mogens Blanke, Íngrid Schjølberg
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RWD-DOF: a dual-degree-of-freedom reconfigurable wheel design for improved robotic mobility [PDF]
Wheeled mobile robots are efficient on flat surfaces but face limitations in overcoming obstacles like steps due to their fixed wheel radius. This paper presents a novel modular reconfigurable wheel with a dual-degree-of-freedom active reconfigurable ...
Yanjie Liu +4 more
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Printing Untethered Self‐Reconfigurable, Self‐Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self‐Healing Fibers [PDF]
Regarding the challenge of self‐reconfiguration and self‐amputation of soft robots, existing studies mainly focus on modular soft robots and connection methods between modules.
Yidan Gao +7 more
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Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I
Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I provides a selection of key papers presented in The Second ASME/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2012) held on 9th -11th July 2012 in Tianjin, China.
Zoppi, M +4 more
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Current trends in reconfigurable modular robots design
This article presents a review on trends in modular reconfigurable robots, comparing the evolution of the features of the most significant robots over the years and focusing on the latest designs.
Alberto Brunete +2 more
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Self-Reconfigurable Robots [PDF]
A distributed reconfigurable micro-robotic system is a collection of unlimited numbers of distributed small, homogeneous robots designed to autonomously organize and reorganize in order to achieve mission-specified geometric shapes and functions.
HENSINGER, DAVID M. +4 more
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