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Walk on the wild side [modular robot motion]

Mark Yim, D.G. Duff, Kimon Roufas

Year
2002
Citations
42

Abstract

Designers of the PolyBot robot system solve the challenges of locomotion by mimicking locomotion in the animal world. PolyBot is a robot system made of many repeated simple modules. These modules can be connected together to form a variety of shapes to form a new system enabling a variety of functionalities.

Keywords

Modular designVariety (cybernetics)RobotSelf-reconfiguring modular robotComputer scienceMotion (physics)Robot locomotionArtificial intelligenceSimulationHuman–computer interaction

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