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Self-reconfigurable planar parallel robot

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37566), 2005
This paper proposes a novel self-reconfigurable parallel robot which is capable of self-reconfiguring to other various types of planar parallel robots on a horizontal plane. The limbs (legs) of the proposed parallel robot are 2R (two-revolute-joint) open kinematic chains whose second joints are unactuated.
null Jin-Kyu Choi, T. Omata, O. Mori
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Configuration Matching in Self-reconfigurable Process of Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots

2006 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, 2006
It's an important step to find out the best matching scheme in the self-reconfiguring process of self-reconfigurable robots. In this paper, some relative concepts of self-reconfigurable robot and its topological representation and configuration matching are defined, and a matching arithmetic is designed and tested by genetic arithmetic. Testing results
Jie Zhao, Zongwei Ren, Yuhua Zhang
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ATRON Robots: Versatility from Self-Reconfigurable Modules

2007 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, 2007
Traditional fixed morphology robots are limited to purely functional adaptation and thereby to a limited range of applications. In contrast modular self-reconfigurable robots can dynamically and autonomously change both their function and morphology to meet new demands of changing tasks.
Brandt, David, Christensen, David Johan, Lund, Henrik Hautop   +2 more
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Connectors for self-reconfiguring robots

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2002
Connectors for self-reconfiguring robots are difficult to design because of the wide range of requirements. We describe the DRAGON connector, whose most distinctive features are its ability to self-align and its strength-to-weight ratio. It weighs 170 g, but holds over 70-kg load.
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Reconnectable joints for self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Expanding the Societal Role of Robotics in the the Next Millennium (Cat. No.01CH37180), 2002
Self-reconfigurable robots are modular robots that can dynamically and intelligently reconfigure their shape and size to accomplish difficult missions. To build such robots, however, a number of technical challenges must be overcome. One critical problem is the design and implementation of the reconnectable joints (also called connectors), which allows
B. Khoshnevis, R. Kovac, null Wei-Min Shen, P. Will   +3 more
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Distributed systems of self-reconfiguring robots

ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications, 2002
A robot designed for a single purpose can perform a specific task very well, but it may perform poorly on a different task, or in a different environment. This is acceptable if the environment is structured; however, if the task is in an unknown environment, then a robot with the ability to change shape to suit the environment and the required ...
Zack Butler, Robert Fitch, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus   +3 more
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Programming language abstractions for self-reconfigurable robots

Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity, 2012
Self-reconfigurable, modular robots are distributed mechatronic devices that can change their physical shape; modules are programmed individually but must coordinate across the robot. We present dynamic distributed scope as a programming language abstraction for modular robots, and show how it provides a unified abstraction for the domain.
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Modular Robot with Self-Reconfigurable Capabilities

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014
The paper presents a modular robot, designed for reconfiguring, in order to achieve both walking and crawling motion. Each module has 2 DOFs (rotations). Six modules can be connected to form a four-legged structure or an open chain. The robot has self-reconfiguring skills and is able to perform creeping/walking motion.
Bogdan Grămescu, Constantin Niţu
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Requirement to standardise self reconfigurable robotics

Proceedings 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation. Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation for the New Millennium (Cat. No.03EX694), 2004
Self reconfigurable robots are built on a set of elementary modules. Actually the different works in this field are not compatible. This can be seen as a useless dispersion. We propose here an analysis of the conditions that are necessary to give to this field some common rules to build component that could "easily" work together.
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Shape changing and self-reconfiguring robots

Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 2015
Purpose – This article aims to provide details of recent developments in robots that can change shape and self-reconfigure. Design/methodology/approach – Following an introduction, this article first describes some recent developments in shape-changing materials ...
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