Special issue on modular physical modelling

Special Issue on Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) are characterized by the strong interactions among cyber components and dynamic physical components. CPS is expected to play a major role in the development of next-generation smart energy systems, especially for the large scale power systems. Due to the deeply complex intertwining among different components, CPS poses fundamental challenges in multiple aspects, su...

Editorial: Special Issue on Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robots

This Special Issue contains 13 papers that cover the most recent advances in the area of self-reconfiguring modular robots. Self-reconfiguring robots are modular robots that can change their morphology and topology. Each module is a robot by itself. These systems promise great flexibility compared to fixed-shape robots. By keeping the design of each individual module relatively simple and throu...

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Special Issue on Advances on Physical Agents 2012 Carlos

The Workshop on Physical Agents intends to be a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of embodied agents, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous systems: robots, mobile robots, domotics, agents, industrial applications or complex systems. This special issue brings together a selection of revised and extended papers that ...

Functional‒Structural Plant Modelling Special Issue

Most available models for plant cell division are limited to symmetric division with isotropic growth, and often the actual growth of the cell wall is either not considered or is only updated intermittently in a separate time scale from that of the cell expansion mechanics. Abera et al. develop a generic plant cell division algorithm based on biomechanics and ellipse fitting and compare the res...