Get Back In Shape ! – A Hardware Prototype Self - Reconfigurable Modular Microrobot that Uses Shape Memory Alloy –

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  • Eiichi Yoshida
  • Satoshi Murata
  • Shigeru Kokaji
  • Akiya Kamimura
  • Kohji Tomita
  • Haruhisa Kurokawa
چکیده

* Distributed System Design Research Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 1-2 Namiki, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8564 Japan e-mail: [email protected] ** Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology 4259 Nagatsuda Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8502 Japan e-mail: [email protected]

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تاریخ انتشار 2003