This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable
robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of …

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

Self-assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to
complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of …

In this paper, a novel robotic system called modular transformer (M-TRAN) is proposed. M-
TRAN is a distributed, self-reconfigurable system composed of homogeneous robotic …

In this paper, we discuss the self-assembling capabilities of the swarm-bot, a distributed
robotics concept that lies at the intersection between collective and self-reconfigurable …

Presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-
reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic …

In this book the use of ER techniques for the design of self-organising group behaviours, for
both simulated and real robots is introduced. This research has a twofold value. From an …

The concept of a cellular robot that is capable of reconfiguring itself is reviewed. This" self-
reconfigurable (SR) robot" exemplifies a new trend in robotics, indeed, we can now build …

This paper presents a design method and experiments for whole-body locomotion by a
modular robot. There are two types of locomotion for modular robots: a repeating self …

The theoretical ability of modular robots to reconfigure in response to complex tasks in a
priori unknown environments has frequently been cited as an advantage and remains a …