Structure synthesis on-the-fly in a modular robot

Shai Revzen, M Bhoite, J A Macasieb, M Yim

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 4797 – 4802, 2011

Structure synthesis on-the-fly in a modular robot
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Abstract

We describe a modular robot system that can generate foam to make structural elements. The modular mobile system uses CKBot modules and carries extra modules along with a foam generation device. In this paper, we demonstrate the system synthesizing new robot morphologies - such as snake-like or legged robots or use the conforming foam-based structures to encapsulate objects or modify the environment and discuss the issues in building and using this technique.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{revzen-2011-sotf,
  author = {Revzen, Shai and Bhoite, M and Macasieb, J A and Yim, M},
  title = {Structure synthesis on-the-fly in a modular robot},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2011},
  pages = {4797 -- 4802},
  organization = {IEEE/RSJ},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2011.6094575},
  entrysubtype = {ReviewedPaper},
  cvtopic = {design}
}