FreeBOT: A Freeform Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot with Arbitrary Connection Point - Design and Implementation
Guanqi Liang,Haobo Luo,Ming Li,Huihuan Qian,Tin Lun Lam,Guanqi Liang,Haobo Luo,Ming Li,Huihuan Qian,Tin Lun Lam
This paper proposes a novel modular selfreconfigurable robot (MSRR) "FreeBOT", which can be connected freely at any point on other robots. FreeBOT is mainly composed of two parts: a spherical ferromagnetic shell and an internal magnet. The connection between the modules is genderless and instant, since the internal magnet can freely attract other FreeBOT spherical ferromagnetic shells, and not nee...
