Project Information

People

PI: Peter Will (will@isi.edu)
Co-PI: Wei-Min Shen  (shen@isi.edu)

Current Members:
Behnam Salemi   (salemi@isi.edu)
Arvind Seshadri   (arvind@isi.edu)
Kasper Stoy (kaspers@isi.edu)
Rajiv Garg  (rajiv@isi.edu)
Berok Khoshnevis" <khoshnev@usc.edu>

Adm. support and resources: Jeannine Di Camillo (jdicamil@isi.edu)

Former Members:
Andres Castano  (Andres.Castano.@jpl.nasa.gov)
Robert Kovac (kovac@isi.edu)
Yuankai Wang   <yuankaiw@usc.edu>
Ramya Balasundaram   (ramya@isi.edu)
Ramesh Chokkalingam <rchokkalingam@valencesemi.com>,
 

Resources

• ISI
• EFAB
• USC
• MOSIS
• ACMOS

Publications

• Shen, WM and P. Will, Docking in Self-Reconfigurable Robots, IROS 2001.
• B. Khoshinevis, R. Kovac, WM Shen, and P. Will, Reconnectable Joints for Self-Reconfigurable Robots, IROS 2001.
• B. Salemi, WM. Shen and P. Will, Hormone Controlled Metamorphic Robots, Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May. 2001.
• A. Castano and P. Will, Representing and Discovering the Configuration of CONRO Robots. Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May. 2001.
• Shen, WM., B. Salemi and P. Will, Hormone for self-reconfigurable robots. (PS, PDF)

Proc. Intl. Conf. Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IOS Press, pp. 918-925, 2000.
• A. Castano and P. Will

``Mechanical Design of a Module for Autonomous Reconfigurable Robots.'' (PS, PDF)
Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. Intel. Robots Systems, pp. 2203-2209, Nov. 2000.
• A. Castano, R. Chokkalingam and P. Will

``Autonomous and Self-Sufficient CONRO Modules for Reconfigurable Robots.'' (PS, PDF)
Proc. 5th Int'l Symp. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer-Verlag, pp. 155-164, Knoxville, Oct. 2000.
• Shen, WM., Y. Lu and P. Will

``Hormone-based control for self-reconfigurable robots.'' (PS, PDF)
Accepted for publication in Proc. Intl. Conf. Autonomous Agents, 2000.
• A. Castano, WM. Shen and P. Will

``CONRO: Towards Deployable Robots with Inter-Robot Metamorphic Capabilities.'' (PS, PDF)
Autonomous Robots Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 309-324, Jul 2000.
• P. Will, A. Castaño and WM. Shen

``Robot Modularity for Self-Reconfiguration'' (PS, PDF)
Proc. SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control II, pp. 236-245, Boston, Sep. 1999.

Progress Reports

1998

• jul-aug
• sep-oct
• nov-dec

1999

• jan-mar
• apr-jun
• jul-sep
• oct-dec

2000

• jan-mar
• apr-jun

07/2000 - 07/2001

08/2001

09/2001

10/2001

11/2001

12/2001

Current Issues

• 2nd prototype
• CC-1 robot
• hormones

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