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Autonomous Robots
Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications
Autonomous Robots
Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots
Multimode locomotion via SuperBot reconfigurable robots
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Design of the ATRON lattice-based self-reconfigurable robot
Autonomous Robots
Autonomous Self-Assembly in Swarm-Bots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
The emergence of multi-cellular robot organisms through on-line on-board evolution
EvoApplications'12 Proceedings of the 2012t European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
On-line evolution of controllers for aggregating swarm robots in changing environments
PPSN'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - Volume Part II
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Self-assembling multi-robot systems can, in theory, overcome the physical limitations of individual robots by connecting to each other to form particular physical structures (morphologies) relevant to specific tasks. Here, we show for the first time how robots in a real-world multi-robot system can autonomously self-assemble into and reconfigure between arbitrary morphologies. We use a distributed control paradigm. The robots are individually autonomous and homogeneous - they all independently execute the same control program. Inter-robot communication is visual and strictly local. We demonstrate our technique on real robots.