Designing distributed controllers for self-reconfiguring modular robots has been consistently challenging. We have developed a reinforcement learning approach which can be used bo...
— 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...
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...
— 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...
- 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 ...