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A review of coupling mechanism designs for modular reconfigurable robots

Robotica (Cambridge. Print), 2018
SUMMARY With the increasing demands for versatile robotic platforms capable of performing a variety of tasks in diverse and uncertain environments, the needs for adaptable robotic structures have been on the rise.
Wael Saab, Peter Racioppo, Pinhas Ben-Tzvi   +2 more
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RS-ModCubes: Self-Reconfigurable, Scalable, Modular Cubic Robots for Underwater Operations

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
This paper introduces a reconfigurable underwater robot system, RS-ModCubes, which allows scalable multi-robot configurations. An RS-ModCubes system comprises multiple ModCube modules, that can travel underwater with 6 DoFs and assemble with each other ...
Jiaxi Zheng, Guangmin Dai, Botao He, Zhaoyang Mu, Zhaochen Meng, Tianyi Zhang, Weiming Zhi, Dixia Fan   +7 more
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Hexagonal electrohydraulic modules for rapidly reconfigurable high-speed robots

Science Robotics
Robots made from reconfigurable modular units feature versatility, cost efficiency, and improved sustainability compared with fixed designs. Reconfigurable modules driven by soft actuators provide adaptable actuation, safe interaction, and wide design ...
Zachary Yoder, Ellen H. Rumley, I. Schmidt, Philipp Rothemund, C. Keplinger   +4 more
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Self-reconfiguring robots

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 1998
At the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory, we have a vision of the future: a modular robot that can assume a snake shape to traverse a tunnel, reconfigure upon exiting as a six-legged robot to traverse rough terrain, and change shape and gait to climb stairs and enter a building.
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Reconfigurable adaptable micro-robot

IEEE SMC'99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Cat. No.99CH37028), 2003
The research on micro-robots with distributed intelligence, which are capable of reconfiguring themselves to adapt to various defense and civilian tasks, is relatively new. A team of interdisciplinary faculty from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University has taken this challenge and are designing micro-robots that incorporate learning ...
Mahadevan, S., Lal Tummala, R., Mukherjee, R., Aslam, D., Xi, Ning, Weng, J.   +5 more
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Introducing Switched Adaptive Control for Self-Reconfigurable Mobile Cleaning Robots

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Reconfigurable robots provide an attractive option for cleaning tasks, thanks to their better area coverage and adaptability to changing environment. However, the ability to change morphology creates drastic changes in the reconfigurable robot dynamics ...
M. Rayguru, Spandan Roy, Lim Yi, M. R. Elara, Simone Baldi   +4 more
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Programming reconfigurable modular robots

Proceedings of 2012 IEEE/ASME 8th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, 2012
Highly reconfigurable modular robots face unique control and programming challenges due to the large scale of the robotic systems, high level of reconfigurability of the systems, and high number of controllable degrees of freedom in the system. Modular robot systems such as iMobot must face these challenges in novel ways.
David Ko, Harry. H. Cheng
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Mobile robot multisensor reconfiguration

Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2000 (Cat. No.00TH8511), 2002
To increase their autonomy, mobile robots are now supplied with many sensors. The aim of the multi-sensor reconfiguration task is to find the uncorrupted measurements and coordinate the sensors in order to supply reliable information at any time; in other words, the multisensor reconfiguration provides reliable information to the robot even if a ...
K. Djath, M. Dufaut, D. Wolf
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Design of reconfigurable robot

2018 ELEKTRO, 2018
Reconfigurable robot is solution for unknown environment with various obstacles. Also energy consumption is better, when suitable locomotion mode is selected. Proposed service robot is able to locomotes via using of wheels or legs. The design of such structure has several advantage as better ability to cross the various types of terrain.
Ivan Virgala, L'ubica Mikova, Tomas Liptak, Michal Kelemen, Robert Surovec, Filip Filakovsky, Ondrej Jurus, Marek Sukop   +7 more
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A reconfigurable robot platform

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 1999
Abstract In this paper, we present a reconfigurable robot platform based on OPEN-R, a standard for robot entertainment systems. Reconfigurability is attained by the use of the OPEN-R standard which enables a hot plug-in capability through a set of definitions for mechanical, electrical, and software interface protocols.
Masahiro Fujita, Hiroaki Kitano, Koji Kageyama   +2 more
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