Robotics Modules with Realtime Adaptive Topology

Hormone-inspired adaptive communication and distributed control for CONRO self-reconfigurable robots

This paper presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic networks, and distributed collaboration between the physically coupled modules to accomplish global effects such as locomotion and reconfiguration. Inspired by the biological concept of hormone, the paper develops the adaptiv...

Intelligent User Interface for Roombots

Roombots are self-reconfigurable modular robots designed to study robotic reconfiguration and adaptive locomotion. One of the main goals of this platform is to be used as adaptive furniture inside human living spaces such as homes or offices. For this reason, instead of the classical Graphical User Interface methods used up to now, we propose a novel and more natural way of interaction with the...

Zariski-Like Topology on the Classical Prime Spectrum of a Modules

On two problems concerning the Zariski topology of modules

Let $R$ be an associative ring and let $M$ be a left $R$-module.Let $Spec_{R}(M)$ be the collection of all prime submodules of $M$ (equipped with classical Zariski topology). There is a conjecture which says that every irreducible closed subset of $Spec_{R}(M)$ has a generic point. In this article we give an affirmative answer to this conjecture and show that if $M$ has a Noetherian spectrum, t...

Self-Adaptive Furniture with a Modular Robot

Robotics has great potential in designing interactive furniture. Modular robots are a special type of robot that are composed of multiple units, and each of them has independent computation and actuation capabilities. Recently, we have proposed an environmentally-adaptive shape formation framework for modular robots [Yu et al. 2007]. In this paper, we review one specific application under this ...