M-TRAN: self-reconfigurable modular robotic system
By S. Murata, E. Yoshida, A. Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa, K. Tomita, S. Kokaji. 2002
632 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/522ca34c1a081a3dea78fdb30646603fe0dafec1
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In Biomedical Engineering
- Daniela Rus
- Behnam Salemi
- Wei-Min Shen
- Marco Dorigo
- Michael Bonani
- Francesco Mondada
- Sangbae Kim
- Robert J. Wood
In Mechanical Engineering
- Daniela Rus
- Mark Moll
- Behnam Salemi
- Wei-Min Shen
- Hod Lipson
- Mark H. Yim
- Gregory S. Chirikjian
- Eric Klavins
Citations in the corpus
- SWARMORPH: Multirobot Morphogenesis Using Directional Self-Assembly (2009, neutral): “For more details, see [20].”
- Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems (2007, background): “One of the more interesting hardware platforms recently developed has been the modular transformer (MTRAN) series by Satoshi Murata et al. [ 3 ].”
- Pouch Motors: Printable Soft Actuators Integrated with Computational Design (2015, background): “The reconfigurable modular robot [7] and programmable structures [8][9] are also approaches that can potentially provide a customized robotic system with minimum assembly processes.”
- Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics] (2007, background): “One of the more interesting hardware platforms recently developed has been the modular transformer (MTRAN) series by Satoshi Murata et al. [ 3 ].”
- Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications (2020, neutral): “M-TRAN (Murata et al., 2002), M-TRAN II (Kurokawa et al.”
- Teamwork in Self-Organized Robot Colonies (2009, background): “In current implementations [42], [58], [71], [83], however, single modules usually have highly limited”
- SUPERBOT: A Deployable, Multi-Functional, and Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System (2006, methodology): “Other designs such as MTRAN [6] which do not have the rolling ability of the central part can in many cases produce a similar roll effect of a module through execution of a sequence of bending, docking, and undocking actions.”
- Opportunities and Challenges for Data Physicalization (2015, neutral): “Microrobotics can also be used to position multiple physical objects on a 2D plane [21, 45, 57], while free 3D positioning through levitation is currently being researched [39, 61].”