With increasing demand on reliable robotic platforms that can alleviate the burden of daily
painstaking tasks, researchers have focused their effort towards developing robotic …

While expected applications of Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) span various workspaces,
scales, and structures, practical implementations of such systems lag behind their potentials …

A new prototype of a self-reconfigurable modular robot, M-TRAN III, has been developed,
with an improved fast and rigid connection mechanism. Using a distributed controller …

Abstract Employing Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) in different application domains
confronts a large number of challenging problems in design, optimization, and planning, and …

This paper presents a homogeneous modular robot system design based on four per-
module degrees of freedom (DOF), including a prismatic DOF to increase the versatility of its …

In this article, we propose a simple docking method using an onboard camera module. It has
two key ideas: one is image processing using a camera module and LEDs equipped on the …

This paper describes a heterogeneous modular robot system design which attempts to give
a quick solution to a diversity of tasks. The approach is based on the use of an inventory of …

Unstructured environments and task based goals require varying robot configurations to
fulfill the missions. Modular robotic systems are fast growing solutions for this purpose …

The area of cognitive or intelligent robotics is moving from the single monolithic robot control
and behavior problem to that of controlling robots with multiple components or multiple …

We have been developing a self-reconfigurable robot M-TRAN. In this paper, we focus on
the docking of M-TRAN modules. In order to dock modules in separate configurations, we …