Title :
Reconfigurable adaptable micro-robot
Author :
Tummala, R. Lal ; Mukherjee, R. ; Aslam, D. ; Xi, Ning ; Mahadevan, S. ; Weng, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
The research on micro-robots with distributed intelligence, which are capable of reconfiguring themselves to adapt to various defense and civilian tasks, is relatively new. A team of interdisciplinary faculty from the College of Engineering at Michigan State University has taken this challenge and are designing micro-robots that incorporate learning, control and sensing. This paper presents the goals, and directions of this research along with the details of a preliminary design of one of the robots
Keywords :
adaptive systems; intelligent control; learning (artificial intelligence); microrobots; robot kinematics; sensors; Michigan State University; adaptable robots; kinematics; learning; microrobots; reconfigurable robots; sensing; Computational intelligence; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Floors; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Legged locomotion; Orbital robotics; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.816634
