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IROS
2008
IEEE
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Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems
Abstract— We present a novel type of inter-module connection mechanism for waterborne modular robotic systems. The proposed mechanism exploits the thermoelectric effect to cool d...
Shuhei Miyashita, Flurin Casanova, Max Lungarella,...
CBSE
2009
Springer
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Control Encapsulation: A Calculus for Exogenous Composition of Software Components
Abstract. In current software components models, components do not encapsulate control, and are composed by connection mechanisms which pass control from component to component. Co...
Kung-Kiu Lau, Mario Ornaghi
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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SINGO: A single-end-operative and genderless connector for self-reconfiguration, self-assembly and self-healing
Abstract—Flexible and reliable connection is critical for selfreconfiguration, self-assembly, or self-healing. However, most existing connection mechanisms suffer from a deficien...
Wei-Min Shen, Robert Kovac, Michael Rubenstein