A Survey of Motion Planning for Self-Reconfigurable Robots
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چکیده
Self-Reconfigurable robots are complex distributed systems composed of multiple modular robotic units. These units can rearrange to form different structures that fit the specific tasks that face the robot. The unique and complex nature of self-reconfigurable robots has lead to a challenging subset of motion-planning problems. In this paper several types of reconfigurable robots are described and the current algorithmic designs for those robots are surveyed.
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