Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures
Modular self-reconfigurable robots present wide and unique solutions for growing demands in the domains of space exploration, automation, consumer products, and so forth. The higher utilization factor and self-healing capabilities are most demanded traits in robotics for real world applications and...
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| description | Modular self-reconfigurable robots present wide and unique solutions for growing demands in the domains of space exploration, automation, consumer products, and so forth. The higher utilization factor and self-healing capabilities are most demanded traits in robotics for real world applications and modular robotics offer better solutions in these perspectives in relation to traditional robotics. The researchers in robotics domain identified various applications and prototyped numerous robotic models while addressing constraints such as homogeneity, reconfigurability, form factor, and power consumption. The diversified nature of various modular robotic solutions proposed for real world applications and utilization of different sensor and actuator interfacing techniques along with physical model optimizations presents implicit challenges to researchers while identifying and visualizing the merits/demerits of various approaches to a solution. This paper attempts to simplify the comparison of various hardware prototypes by providing a brief study on hardware architectures of modular robots capable of self-healing and reconfiguration along with design techniques adopted in modeling robots, interfacing technologies, and so forth over the past 25 years. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b5038fab447644a1b96941bb0ec1f6d62025-02-03T06:01:39ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96001687-96192017-01-01201710.1155/2017/50135325013532Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware ArchitecturesS. Sankhar Reddy Chennareddy0Anita Agrawal1Anupama Karuppiah2EEE Department, NH-17B, BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa 403726, IndiaEEE Department, NH-17B, BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa 403726, IndiaEEE Department, NH-17B, BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa 403726, IndiaModular self-reconfigurable robots present wide and unique solutions for growing demands in the domains of space exploration, automation, consumer products, and so forth. The higher utilization factor and self-healing capabilities are most demanded traits in robotics for real world applications and modular robotics offer better solutions in these perspectives in relation to traditional robotics. The researchers in robotics domain identified various applications and prototyped numerous robotic models while addressing constraints such as homogeneity, reconfigurability, form factor, and power consumption. The diversified nature of various modular robotic solutions proposed for real world applications and utilization of different sensor and actuator interfacing techniques along with physical model optimizations presents implicit challenges to researchers while identifying and visualizing the merits/demerits of various approaches to a solution. This paper attempts to simplify the comparison of various hardware prototypes by providing a brief study on hardware architectures of modular robots capable of self-healing and reconfiguration along with design techniques adopted in modeling robots, interfacing technologies, and so forth over the past 25 years.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5013532 |
| spellingShingle | S. Sankhar Reddy Chennareddy Anita Agrawal Anupama Karuppiah Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures Journal of Robotics |
| title | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures |
| title_full | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures |
| title_fullStr | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures |
| title_short | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: A Survey on Hardware Architectures |
| title_sort | modular self reconfigurable robotic systems a survey on hardware architectures |
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