Modular and reconfigurable mobile robotics

P Moubarak, P Ben-Tzvi - Robotics and autonomous systems, 2012 - Elsevier
With increasing demand on reliable robotic platforms that can alleviate the burden of daily
painstaking tasks, researchers have focused their effort towards develo** robotic …

Achievements and future directions in self‐reconfigurable modular robotic systems

Hİ Dokuyucu, NG Özmen - Journal of Field Robotics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, a comprehensive review of achievements in the self‐reconfigurable modular
robotics field and future directions are given. Self‐reconfigurable modular robots (SRMRs) …

Modular robotic systems: Characteristics and applications

H Ahmadzadeh, E Masehian, M Asadpour - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Employing Modular Robotic Systems (MRS) in different application domains
confronts a large number of challenging problems in design, optimization, and planning, and …

Roombots: A hardware perspective on 3D self-reconfiguration and locomotion with a homogeneous modular robot

A Spröwitz, R Moeckel, M Vespignani, S Bonardi… - Robotics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this work we provide hands-on experience on designing and testing a self-reconfiguring
modular robotic system, Roombots (RB), to be used among others for adaptive furniture. In …

Active stiffness tuning of a spring-based continuum robot for MRI-guided neurosurgery

Y Kim, SS Cheng, JP Desai - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep intracranial tumor removal can be achieved if the neurosurgical robot has sufficient
flexibility and stability. Toward achieving this goal, we have developed a spring-based …

Survey on research and development of reconfigurable modular robots

J Liu, X Zhang, G Hao - Advances in Mechanical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents a comprehensive survey of reconfigurable modular robots, which
covers the origin, history, the state of the art, key technologies, challenges, and applications …

Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design

G Liang, D Wu, Y Tu, TL Lam - The International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The intrinsic modularity and reconfigurability of modular reconfigurable robot (MRR) systems
confer advantages such as versatility, fault tolerance, and economic efficacy, thereby …

Soldercubes: a self-soldering self-reconfiguring modular robot system

J Neubert, H Lipson - Autonomous Robots, 2016 - Springer
Soldercubes are a self-reconfiguring modular robot (MR) system whose modules are light
weight, low cost, and designed with manufacturability for large batch production in mind. The …

M3Express: A low-cost independently-mobile reconfigurable modular robot

KC Wolfe, MS Moses, MDM Kutzer… - … on robotics and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents M 3 Express (Modular-Mobile-Multirobot), a new design for a low-cost
modular robot. The robot is self-mobile, with three independently driven wheels that also …

Reconfigurable swarm robots for structural health monitoring: a brief review

MR Jahanshahi, WM Shen, TG Mondal… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Autonomous monitoring of infrastructure systems offers a promising alternative to manual
inspection techniques which are mostly tedious, expensive and prone to error. Robot-based …