Self-assembling robots

We look at robotic systems made of separate discrete components that, by self-assembling, can organize into physical structures of growing size. We review 22 such systems, exhibiting components ranging from passive mechanical parts to mobile<p>robots. We present a taxonomy of the systems, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gross, Roderich
Other Authors: Dorigo, Marco
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:fr
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210656