Robots Everywhere » dock http://www.brickengineer.com/robots ... and growing exponentially Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reassembling Robots http://www.brickengineer.com/robots/2009/01/30/reassembling-robots/ http://www.brickengineer.com/robots/2009/01/30/reassembling-robots/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:14:45 +0000 admin http://www.brickengineer.com/robots/?p=72 Mark Yim, associate professor member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, introduces reassembling/reconfiguring robots.

The robot below called Ckbot is constructed of 15 modules grouped into 3 clusters of 5 modules each. Each cluster is equipped with a camera (24 frames per second video), a blinker LED, and an accelerometer.  The other modules have proximity sensors, servo motors, and a computer.  When the system is disassembled, each cluster rights itself and seeks out the other clusters so that they may dock and reconstruct the robot.

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