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Many researchers have paid more and more attention to the lattice self-reconfigurable modular robot for its excellent flexibility in connection and separation movements of modules. The paper proposes a novel design of self-reconfigurable robot module (M-Lattice) with the overall description. Moreover, the key features of module’s genderless pin-slot-based connection mechanism are introduced. Finally, the connection mechanism is proved to be feasible for the tasks of module’s self-reconfiguration by the experiments.
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Guan, E., Yan, W., Jiang, D., Fu, Z., Zhao, Y. (2010). A Novel Design for the Self-reconfigurable Robot Module and Connection Mechanism. In: Liu, H., Ding, H., Xiong, Z., Zhu, X. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16584-9_39
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