A novel design for the self-reconfigurable robot module and connection mechanism

Abstract

Many researchers have paid more and more attention to the lattice self-reconfigurable modular robot for its excellent flexibility in connection and separation movements of modules. The paper proposes a novel design of self-reconfigurable robot module (M-Lattice) with the overall description. Moreover, the key features of module's genderless pin-slot-based connection mechanism are introduced. Finally, the connection mechanism is proved to be feasible for the tasks of module's self-reconfiguration by the experiments. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.