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IJRR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Automated Design of Adaptive Controllers for Modular Robots using Reinforcement Learning
Designing distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots has been consistently challenging. We have developed a reinforcement learning approach which can be used bo...
Paulina Varshavskaya, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Danie...
SASO
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Spatial Computing with Labels
— A reconfigurable robot is a robot that can change shape. Programming reconfigurable robots is complicated by the need to adapt the behavior of each of the individual module t...
Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Mirko Bordignon, David Johan C...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
107views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
A miniature inspection robot negotiating pipes of widely varying diameter
The purpose of this research is to realize a small robot which can negotiate pipes whose diameter varies widely during the robot’s course. A new in-pipe locomotion mechanism nam...
Koichi Suzumori, Shuichi Wakimoto, Masanori Takata
ICRA
2006
IEEE
93views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical Control for Self-assembling Mobile Trusses with Passive and Active Links
— This paper explores the space of active modular trusses, ranging from a passive truss with one independent active climbing module to fully self-reconfiguring dynamically contr...
Carrick Detweiler, Marsette Vona, Keith Kotay, Dan...
ICRA
2003
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
14 years 27 days ago
Curvature Based Point Stabilization for Compliant Framed Wheeled Modular Mobile Robots
- Posture stabilization of a compliant framed modular mobile robot is the subject of this paper. This is a new type of wheeled mobile robot that has advantages of a simple modular ...
Brian W. Albiston, Mark A. Minor