Project Number
- 312
Title
- Distributed Systems of Self-reconfiguring Robots
Description
- Highly adaptive autonomous units that can change system shape to suit immediate task requirements.
Contact
- Daniela Rus
Affiliation
- Dartmouth College
Address
- Department of Computer Science
- rus@cs.dartmouth.edu
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- Self-reconfiguring robots are highly adaptive autonomous units that can change shape to suit the environment and the required functionality in order to succeed under unknown and potentially hazardous conditions.
- The research of this team is focused at two directions of work:
- 1 - new designs for modular robots that can support self-assembly and self-reconfiguration
- 2 - new distributed planners that can support parallelism, are efficient, and correctly direct units to change shape
- Robot applications both in 2D and 3D reconfiguration (Molecule Robot, Crystal Robot) are described.
Sight
- graphics workstation
Sound
Touch
- self-reconfiguring robots
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 1 - Technology (innovation, machine)
Primary
- 108 - robotics
Secondary
- 104 - machine recogition
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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