PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot Export

@inproceedings{yim-etal-icra00, abstract = {Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low cost. The paper presents examples and issues in realizing those promises. PolyBot is a modular, self-reconfigurable system that is being used to explore the hardware reality of a robot with a large number of interchangeable modules. PolyBot has demonstrated the versatility promise, by implementing locomotion over a variety of terrain and manipulation versatility with a variety of objects. PolyBot is the first robot to demonstrate sequentially two topologically distinct locomotion modes by self-reconfiguration. PolyBot has raised issues regarding software scalability and hardware dependency and as the design evolves the issues of low cost and robustness will be resolved while exploring the potential of modular, self-reconfigurable robots}, author = {Yim, M. and Duff, D. G. and Roufas, K. D.}, booktitle = {Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3447074}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844106}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=844106}, doi = {10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844106}, journal = {Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {modular, robots}, pages = {514--520 vol.1}, posted-at = {2009-04-25 05:24:15}, priority = {2}, title = {PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844106}, volume = {1}, year = {2000} }

TY - CONF ID - yim-etal-icra00 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3447074 N2 - Modular, self-reconfigurable robots show the promise of great versatility, robustness and low cost. The paper presents examples and issues in realizing those promises. PolyBot is a modular, self-reconfigurable system that is being used to explore the hardware reality of a robot with a large number of interchangeable modules. PolyBot has demonstrated the versatility promise, by implementing locomotion over a variety of terrain and manipulation versatility with a variety of objects. PolyBot is the first robot to demonstrate sequentially two topologically distinct locomotion modes by self-reconfiguration. PolyBot has raised issues regarding software scalability and hardware dependency and as the design evolves the issues of low cost and robustness will be resolved while exploring the potential of modular, self-reconfigurable robots JF - Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on EP - 520 vol.1 TI - PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot VL - 1 T2 - Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on SP - 514 KW - modular KW - robots AU - Yim, M AU - Duff, DG AU - Roufas, KD PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844106 ER -