A motion planning method for a self-reconfigurable modular robot
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چکیده
This paper addresses motion planning of a homogeneous modular robotic system. The modules have selfreconfiguration capability so that a group of the modules can construct a robotic structure. Motion planning for selfreconfiguration is a kind of computationally difficult problem because of many combinatorial possibilities of modular configuration and the restricted degrees of freedom of the module; only two rotation axes per module. We will show a motion planning method for a class of multi-module structures. It is based on global planning and local motion scheme selection that is effective to solve the complicated planning problem.
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