Designing a quasi-spherical module for a huge modular robot to create programmable matter
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2018 at "Autonomous Robots"
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-018-9710-0
Abstract: There are many ways to implement programmable matter. One is to build it as a huge modular self-reconfigurable robot composed of a large set of spherical micro-robots, like in the Claytronics project. These micro-robots must… read more here.
Keywords: quasi spherical; robot; micro robots; huge modular ... See more keywords
Distributed Prediction of Unsafe Reconfiguration Scenarios of Modular Robotic Programmable Matter
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2021 at "IEEE Transactions on Robotics"
DOI: 10.1109/tro.2021.3074085
Abstract: We present a distributed framework for predicting whether a planned reconfiguration step of a modular robot will mechanically overload the structure, causing it to break or lose stability under its own weight. The algorithm is… read more here.
Keywords: distributed prediction; prediction unsafe; reconfiguration; programmable matter ... See more keywords