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Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) pp 5–18Cite as

Self-reconfigurable Robots with ATRON Modules

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We developed a new robotic systems that can change morphology. The system is made of ATRON modules, which are individually simple, attach through physical connections, and perform 3D motions by collective actions. We produced 100 ATRON modules, and performed both simulation and real world experiments. In this paper, we report on the ATRON hardware design and investigations related to the verification of the suitability of the ATRON module design for self-reconfigurable robotics.

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  1. Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Henrik Hautop Lund, Richard Beck & Lars Dalgaard

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  1. Dept. of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, University of Fukui, Bunkyo 3-9-1, 910-8507, Fukui, Japan

    Kazuyuki Murase , Kosuke Sekiyama  & Tomohide Naniwa ,  & 

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, 192-0397, Hachioji Tokyo, Japan

    Naoyuki Kubota

  3. Faculty of Information Technology School of Software Engineering & Data Communication, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 001 Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

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Lund, H.H., Beck, R., Dalgaard, L. (2006). Self-reconfigurable Robots with ATRON Modules. In: Murase, K., Sekiyama, K., Naniwa, T., Kubota, N., Sitte, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29344-2_2

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