Self-Reconfigurable Robots for Adaptive and Multifunctional Tasks

Abstract

Self-reconfigurable modular robots are metamorphic systems that can autonomously change their logical or physical configurations (such as shapes, sizes, or formations), as well as their locomotion and manipulation, based on the mission and the environment in hand. Because of their modularity, versatility, self-healing ability and low cost reproducibility, such robots provide a flexible approach for achieving complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. This paper gives an overview of an existing self-reconfigurable robot called SuperBot, and describes its control method for diverse behaviors, its self-reconfigurable connectors, and some experimental results for adaptive and multifunctional tasks for Army applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA505687

Entities

People

  • Wei-min Shen

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automata Theory
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Cognitive Science
  • Connectors
  • Control Systems
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Locomotion
  • Manufacturing
  • Robotic Swarms
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Self Assembly
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Supervised Machine Learning

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control