Self-reconfiguring robots

: We discuss the applications of modular self-reconfigurable robots to navigation. We show that greedy algorithms are complete for motion planning over a class of modular reconfigurable robots. We illustrate the application of this result on two self-reconfigurable robot systems we designed and built in our lab: the robotic molecule and the atom. We describe the modules and our locomotion experiments.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CACM
• Authors: Daniela Rus, Zack J. Butler, Keith Kotay, Marsette Vona
• Keywords: CACM 2002, Modular Reconfigurable Robots, Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots, Self-reconfigurable Robot