Design and simulation of locomotion of self-organising modular robots for adaptive furniture
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The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) recently started a project on Modular Robotics for the future Learning Centre of the EPFL: Roombots, Modular Robotics for adaptive and self-organising furniture. It intends to design modular robots for furniture with ability for locomotion, self-assembling, self-organisation, self-reconfiguration and self-repairing. This report covers the first stage of the project: the design of the external structure of the first prototypes of the modules as well as the simulation of locomotion of some multi-unit robots.
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