The world is becoming more digitised with the rise of modular robotic systems. Therefore,
with the increasing demands and needs for robotics, the modular robotic domain was …

The integration of additive manufacturing (AM) in design and engineering has prompted a
wide spectrum of research efforts, involving topologically optimized solid/lattice structures …

While researchers envision exciting applications for metamorphic systems like
programmable matter, current solutions to the shape formation problem are still a long way …

Programmable matter based on modular self-reconfigurable robots could stand as the
ultimate form of display system, through which humans could not only see the virtual world in …

Modular robots have a unique obstacle-crossing method, flow. Flow is realized by constantly
changing the connection relationship between modules, namely reconfiguration. Existing …

We give an overview of the 2021 Computational Geometry Challenge, which targeted the
problem of optimally coordinating a set of robots by computing a family of collision-free …

We study programmable matter systems consisting of modules that perform the minimal
mechanical operation of rotating by 90° around each other. We represent the modules as …

The self-reconfiguration of large swarms of modular robotic units from one object into
another is an intricate problem whose critical parameter that must be optimized is the time …

Recently, the industrial revolution has led to the emergence of a new generation of robotics
called as modular robotic system (MRS). However, such new technology faces technical and …

This paper introduces an obstacle-crossing strategy, and the self-reconfiguration algorithm
for a new class of modular robots called the rolling sphere, which can fit obstacles …