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Chain Type Research Papers

"Motion planning with narrow C-space passages", submitted to IEEE/RSJ conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), Las Vegas, 2003. [PDF] [abstract]
"Scalable and reconfigurable configurations and locomotion gaits for chain-type modular reconfigurable robots", IEEE Symposium on computational intelligence in robotics and automation (CIRA), Japan, 2003. [PDF] [abstract]
"Phase Automata: a programming model of locomotion gaits for scalable chain-type modular robots", submitted to IEEE/RSJ conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), Las Vegas, 2003. [PDF] [abstract]
"Connecting and disconnecting for chain self-reconfiguration with PolyBot", IEEE/ASME Transactions on mechatronics, special issue on Information Technology in Mechatronics, 2003 [PDF] [abstract]
"Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications", Autonomous Robot Journal, special issue for Robots in Space, Springer Verlag, 2003. [PDF] [abstract]
"Modular self-reconfigurable robots", Robotics for future land warfare seminar and workshop, Defence Science Technology Organisation, Adelaide, Australia, 2002 [PDF] [abstract]
"A General Constraint-Based Control Framework with Examples in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 2002 [PDF] [abstract]
"Sensor Computation in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots", Experimental Robotics VIII, Advanced Robotics Series, Bruno Siciliano Ed. Springer, 2003 [PDF] [abstract]
"Massively Distributed Control Nets for Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots", 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems [PDF] [abstract]
"Attribute/Service Model: Design Patterns for Efficient Coordination of Distributed Sensors, Actuators and Tasks in Embedded Systems", Workshop on Embedded System Codesigns 2002 [PDF] [abstract]
" Reconfiguration Planning for Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots ", PhD Thesis, Stanford, 2002 [PDF] [abstract]
"Evolution of PolyBot: A Modular Reconfigurable Robot", Proc. of the Harmonic Drive Intl. Symposium, Nagano, Japan, Nov. 2001, and Proc. of COE/Super-Mechano-Systems Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Closed Chain Motion with Large Mechanical Advantage", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hawaii, USA, Oct. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Software Architecture for Modular Self-Reconfiguable Robots", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hawaii, USA, Oct. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications", 10th Intl. Conf. on Advanced Robotics Budapest, Hungry, Aug. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Modular Robot Control and Continuous Constraint Satisfaction", IJCAI-01 Workshop on Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints, Aug. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Motion Planning of Legged Vehicles in an Unstructured Environment", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Joint Solutions of Many Degrees-of-freedom Systems Using Dextrous Workspaces", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Climbing with Snake-like Robots", Proc. of IFAC Workshop on Mobile Robot Technology, Jejudo, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
" Heuristic Algorithms for Motion Planning", PhD Thesis, Oxford, 2001 [PDF] (3.7M) [abstract]
"Six Degree of Freedom Sensing for Docking Using IR RED Emitters and Receivers", Experimental Robotics VII, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 271, D. Rus and S. Singh Eds. Springer, 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Connectivity Planning for Closed-Chain Reconfiguration", Proc. of SPIE, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Sys. III, Vol. 4196, Nov. 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Predictable Motion of Hyper-redundant Manipulators Using Constrained Optimization Control", Int. Conf. on AI 2000 (IC-AI'2000), Las Vegas, NV, June 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"PolyBot: a Modular Reconfigurable Robot", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), San Francisco, CA, April 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Two Approaches to Distributed Manipulation", Distributed Manipulation, ed. by H. Choset and K. Bohringer, Kluwer Academic Publishing, 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Modular Reconfigurable Robots, An Approach To Urban Search and Rescue", 1st Intl. Workshop on Human-friendly Welfare Robotics Systems, Taejon, Korea, Jan. 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Self-Reconfiguration Planning for a Class of Modular Robots", Proc. of SPIE, Volume 3839, 1999 [PDF] [abstract]
"Towards Constraint-based Actuation Allocation for Hyper-redundant Manipulators", CP'99 Workshop on Constraints in Control (CC'99), Alexandria, VA, Oct. 1999 [PDF] [abstract]
"A Comparison Between Contact And Non-Contact Distributed Manipulation", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 1999 [PDF] [abstract]
"New Locomotion Gaits", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), San Diego, CA, 1994 [PDF] [abstract]
"Locomotion with a Unit Modular Reconfigurable Robot", PhD Thesis, Dept. of Mech. Eng. Stanford Univ. 1994 [PDF] (1.4M) [abstract]
"Locomotion Gaits with Polypod", Video Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, San Diego, CA. 1994. [PDF] [abstract]
"A Reconfigurable Modular Robot with Many Modes of Locomotion", JSME Intl. Conf. on Advanced Mechatronics, Tokyo, Japan, 1993 [PDF] [abstract]
 

Lattice Type Research Papers

"A Complete, Local and Parallel Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cube Style Modular Robots ", accepted to 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [PDF] [abstract]
"On the General Reconfiguration Problem for Expanding Cube Style Modular Robots", accepted to 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [PDF] [abstract]
"Telecubes: Mechanical Design of a Module for Self-Reconfigurable Robotics", accepted to 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) [PDF] [abstract]
"Design Tradeoffs for Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots: The Mechanical Design of Telecubes (A Case Study in Progress) ", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Self-reconfigurable Robots, Seoul, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Polyhedral Single Degree-of-freedom Expanding Structures", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Complex Behaviors from Local Rules in Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots" , IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Distributed Control for 3D Metamorphosis", Autonomous Robots, Vol 10, no 1, p 41-56, Jan. 2001 [PDF] [abstract]
"Controlled Module Density Helps Reconfiguration Planning", Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Emergent Structures in Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), San Francisco, CA, April 2000 [PDF] [abstract]
"Rhombic Dodecahedron Shape for Self-Assembling Robots", Xerox PARC SPL TechReport P9710777, 1997 [PDF] [abstract]
 
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