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Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems

Volume 2, 2019

Modular Reconfigurable Robotics

Abstract

This article reviews the current state of the art in the development of modular reconfigurable robot (MRR) systems and suggests promising future research directions. A wide variety of MRR systems have been presented to date, and these robots promise to be versatile, robust, and low cost compared with other conventional robot systems. MRR systems thus have the potential to outperform traditional systems with a fixed morphology when carrying out tasks that require a high level of flexibility. We begin by introducing the taxonomy of MRRs based on their hardware architecture. We then examine recent progress in the hardware and the software technologies for MRRs, along with remaining technical issues. We conclude with a discussion of open challenges and future research directions.

Keyword(s): cellular and modular robots, distributed robot systems, multirobot systems, reconfigurable robots
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