Jul 5, 2021 · The new EMERGE modular robot design provides a simple to build module that has been validated to build evolved robot morphologies manually. Davey et al. (2012) have …

Nov 20, 2023 · Beckhoff’s modular ATRO robotics system addresses shortcomings of industrial robots. A multi-arm configuration of Beckhoff Automation’s modular ATRO robotics system, …

Feb 1, 2002 · Modular reconfigurable robots—experimental systems made by interconnecting multiple, simple, similar units--can perform such shape shifting.

The goal of this article is to help shortening the development time and to reduce the number of iterations by presenting a process for efficient design, a method for optimizing light yet stiff …

Jan 1, 2014 · Modularity is an important design concept in engineering to cope with complex systems. For robots used in the industrial environment, the complexity resides in the robot …

Unlike fixed-morphology soft robots, modularization of soft robots is a low-cost and rapid strategy that enables them to adapt to changing tasks and environments by rearranging the …

Jun 12, 2017 · In this article, we focus on individual features in modular robotics such as reconfiguration, docking, degrees of freedom (DoF), locomotion, control, communications, …

May 21, 2023 · Module robotics are robots designed with parts that can be reconfigured to assume different shapes and functions. In many cases, such robots are able to reconfigure …

Dec 7, 2024 · This paper presents the design of a modular control system of mobile robot using fuzzy logic to coordinate behaviors. Sensor signals are processed in an independent module …

We use artificial evolution to optimize robots for a locomotion task using each different module length and base, and also evolve robots with combinations of modules of different length.