[HTML][HTML] Modularity, reconfigurability, and autonomy for the future in spacecraft: A review

Z Zhang, LI **nhong, LI Yanyan, HU Gangxuan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The shape of a spacecraft is transitioning from monolithic, manual, and static to modular,
autonomous, and dynamic. Modular Reconfigurable Spacecrafts (MRSs) offer better …

Modular Self-Configurable Robots—The State of the Art

LAT Vu, Z Bi, D Mueller, N Younis - Actuators, 2023 - mdpi.com
Modular self-configurable robot (MSR) systems have been investigated for decades, and
their applications have been widely explored to meet emerging automation needs in various …

Optimizing modular robot composition: A lexicographic genetic algorithm approach

J Külz, M Althoff - 2024 IEEE International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial robots are designed as general-purpose hardware with limited ability to adapt to
changing task requirements or environments. Modular robots, on the other hand, offer …

Model free position-force control of environmental constrained reconfigurable manipulators based on adaptive dynamic programming

B Ma, X Yao, T An, B Dong, Y Li - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
This article proposes a model free position-force control method for uncertain environmental
constrained reconfigurable manipulators based on adaptive dynamic programming …

Malleable robots: Reconfigurable robotic arms with continuum links of variable stiffness

AB Clark, N Rojas - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Through the implementation of reconfigurability to achieve flexibility and adaptation to tasks
by morphology changes rather than by increasing the number of joints, malleable robots …

Toward a plug-and-work reconfigurable cobot

E Romiti, J Malzahn, N Kashiri… - IEEE/ASME …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ongoing trend from mass-produced to mass-customized products with batch sizes as
small as a single unit has highlighted the need for highly adaptable robotic systems with …

Event-triggered-based cooperative game optimal tracking control for modular robot manipulator with constrained input

Y Li, C Wei, T An, B Ma, B Dong - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, a cooperative game optimal tracking control method based on event-triggered
mechanism for constrained input modular robot manipulators (MRMs) system is introduced …

Optimal synthesis of reconfigurable manipulators for robotic assistance in vertical farming

N Chitre, A Dogra, E Singla - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
Due to the ever-increasing demand for food commodities and issues arising in their
transport from rural to urban areas, commercial agricultural practices with the help of vertical …

Unified modeling of unconventional modular and reconfigurable manipulation system

A Dogra, S Mahna, SS Padhee, E Singla - Robotics and Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Customization of manipulator configurations using modularity and reconfigurability aspects
is receiving much attention. Modules presented so far in literature deal with the conventional …

Assembly configuration representation and kinematic modeling for modular reconfigurable robots based on graph theory

T Zhang, Q Du, G Yang, C Wang, CY Chen, C Zhang… - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
A Modular Reconfigurable Robot (MRR) composed of standard joint and link modules has
the advantages of rapid changeover of assembly configurations for a diversity of application …