Self-Sufficiency of an Autonomous Reconfigurable Modular Robotic Organism

• Main Author: Qadir, Raja Humza (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, 17
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Robotics.; Automation.; Biomedical engineering.; Robotics and Automation.; Complexity.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Biomedical Engineering.

This book describes how the principle of self-sufficiency can be applied to a reconfigurable modular robotic organism. It shows the design considerations for a novel REPLICATOR robotic platform, both hardware and software, featuring the behavioral characteristics of social insect colonies. Following...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background and Related Work
• Concept
• Implementation
• Experiments and Results
• Conclusion and Outlook.