realization of the modular actions required by the sliding cube model using pivoting. We describe the principles, the unit-module hardware, and extensive experiments with a system of eight modules. I.

, allowing researchers to encapsulate robotic capabilities within a component structure, has traditionally been the focus of robotics software engineering research. Although components greatly enhance the software mechanism's portability, modularity and extensibility, they do not directly address

Abstract This article describes the system model for combining DSM modules from SPINEA Company to the higher functional units. The outcome is a modular robotic arm with six degrees of freedom. The work area can be changed depending on change the length of the individual arms. In the design robotic

Abstract—A prototype of modular networked robot for autonomous monitoring works with full control over web through wireless connection has been developed. The robot is equipped with a particular set of built-in analyzing tools and appropriate censors, depending on its main purposes, to enable

For mobile robots, the essential units of actuation, computation, and sensing must be designed to fit within the body of the robot. Additional capabilities will largely depend upon a given activity, and should be easily reconfigurable to maximize the diversity of applications and experiments

and control system are still task or operation type specific. IRIS is a tooling system for commercial industrial robots that is guided by a miniature ‘eye-in-palm ’ camera. The modular design of the system mechanics enable attachment to any commercial manipulator, even to one having unsufficient absolute

Abstract — This work presents a low-complexity modular sensor grid architecture to provide a smart skin to non-convex shapes, such as a robot body and legs. To configure a sensing skin shaped by arbitrary cuts and rapid changes in designs, we use a wavefront planning approach to generate a

Abstract – This paper presents the latest developments around our mobile micro-robot Alice. This small robot is the starting point driving and enabling enhancements in locomotion, energy, communication, perception and control. A set of new features and new HW modules is described. The robot itself

of multiple units. The modular legs can be plugged onto a main body to rapidly configure a robot with four, six, or more. Software modules that can be tailored to the given modular configuration will be developed.

pedundulatory, which augment lateral body undulations by coordinated dorso-ventral oscillations of multiple pairs of lateral paddle-shaped appendages (parapodia). We examine how, the same robotic prototype, allows the implementation of four distinct bio-inspired undulatory and pedundulatory modes of locomotion