Creative thinking requires imagination, creativity, play, sharing and reflection. This paper presents an architecture for a curious, reconfigurable robot that encourages creative design thinking by permitting designed structures to learn behaviours. These behaviours encourage designers to play with different structures, reflect on the relationship between structure and behaviour and imagine new...

This paper presents the goals and the research approach of the project DodOrg (Digital On-demand Computing Organism for Real-Time Systems) within the Priority Programme “1183 Organic Computing”. The main goal of the project is the development of a biologically motivated computing organism with the three levels “brain”, “organ” and “cell”. On the brain level an organic robot control will be deve...

Modular robotics has been an active area of research for the last decade. In this paper, we argue that it also provides an excellent platform for education. PolyBot is a type of modular reconfigurable robot developed at PARC. The PolyKinetic System provides a robotic scripting language and programming environment for controlling this type of robot. Based on experience with mentoring high school...

A Conro reconfigurable robot is formed by joining a set of self-contained modules in a particular configuration; the actions of the robot are the result of the coordinated actions of its modules. These actions can be controlled using a master-slave approach only i f the master can m a p the particular configuration of the robot to one that it already knows how t o control. In this paper we disc...

0.1016/j.dcan.201 hongqing Universi thor. : [email protected] du (N. Rojas), u.sg (M.R. Elara), du.sg (R. Sosa), jp (M. Iwase). Abstract Legged robots based on one degree-of-freedom reconfigurable planar leg mechanisms, that are capable of generating multiple useful gaits, are highly desired due to the possibility of handling environments and tasks of high complexity while maintaining simple co...

Reconfigurable continuum robots exhibit programmable interaction capability, enabling them to cope with challenges poorly addressed by conventional rigid robots. However, the regulation of module type and/or sequence may result in time-consuming and labor-intensive problems. Therefore, situ reconfiguration schemes are required develop a simple yet robust solution for robot design. Herein, inspi...

This paper explains a project based learning method where autonomous mini-robots are developed for research, education and entertainment purposes. In case of remote systems wireless sensors are developed in critical areas, which would collect data at specific time intervals, send the data to the central wireless node based on certain preferred information would make decisions to turn on or off ...

The requirements of a general purpose massively parallel processing system are outlined. The suitability of a finegrained self-reconfigurable system to general massively parallel processing is shown. A new type of selfreconfigurable device called the PIG is introduced, and details of its design and operation are explained. The PIG’s uniqueness compared to other reconfigurable systems is discuss...

Articulated Wheeled Robot (AWR) locomotion systems consist of a chassis connected to sets of wheels through articulated linkages. Such articulated ”legwheel systems” facilitate reconfigurability that has significant applications in many arenas, but also engender constraints that make the design, analysis and control difficult. In this paper we study this class of systems in the context of desig...

ABSTRACT: The solving method of positions and attitudes of discrete solder joints in a curved weld and the method for constructing a weld coordinate system based on Frenet-Serret’s vector were put forward and the position and orientation vectors relative to time series of discrete welding points were obtained. Thus the relative position and orientation between welding point and welding torch wi...