Heterogeneity for Increasing Performance and Reliability of Self-Reconfigurable Multi-Robot Organisms
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Homogeneity and heterogeneity represent a wellknown trade-off in the design of modular robot systems. This work addresses the heterogeneity concept, its rationales, design choices and performance evaluation. We introduce challenges for self-reconfigurable systems, show advances of mechatronic and software design of heterogeneous platforms and discuss experiments, which intend to demonstrate usability and performance of this system.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1109.2288 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011