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

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 …

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

With the progress of science and technology, the traditional robot workplace is fixed, single-
function, and inflexible, and may not work properly in some special places, while the …

Programmable matter is a digital material having computation, sensing, and actuation
capabilities as continuous properties active over its whole extent. To make programmable …

Locomotion, one of the most basic robotic functions, has been widely studied for several
types of robots. As for self-reconfigurable modular robots, there are two types of locomotion; …

Snake-like robots have attracted attention as robots that can travel over rough terrain where
wheeled mobility mechanisms cannot. Previous research on snake-like robots has mainly …

The practical effectiveness of modular robotic systems depends heavily on the connection
mechanisms used to join their separate entities, particularly for those systems capable of self …

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 …

The M-TRAN is a modular robot capable of both three-dimensional self-reconfiguration and
whole body locomotion. Introducing regularity in allowed structures reduced difficulties of its …