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- S. Murata, K. Kakomura, and H. Kurokawa, "Toward a scalable modular
robotic system - Navigation, docking, and integration of M-TRAN ",
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol 14-4, pp. 56-63, 2008.
- H. Kurokawa, K. Tomita, A. Kamimura, S. Kokaji, T. Hasuo, S. Murata, "Distributed
Self-reconfiguration of M-TRAN III Modular Robotic System", Intl.
J. Robotics Research, 27-3-4:373-386, 2008.
- S. Murata, and H. Kurokawa, Self-Reconfigurable Robot: Shape-Changing Cellular
Robots Can Exceed Conventional Robot Flexibility, IEEE Robotics & Automation
Magazine March 2007. (PDF)
- S. Murata, K. Kakomura, and H. Kurokawa, gDocking Experiments of a modular
robot by visual feedback,h Proc. IROS 2006, pp. 625-630, 2006.
- H. Kurokawa, K. Tomita, A. Kamimura, S. Murata, Y. Terada, S. Kokaji, Distributed
Metamorphosis Control of a Modular Robotic System M-TRAN, Distributed Autonomous
Robotic Systems (DARS) 7, Springer, pp.115-124, 2006.
- H. Kurokawa, E. Yoshida, A. Kamimura, K. Tomita, S. Murata, and S. Kokaji, Self-reconfigurable M-TRAN Structures and Their Walker Generation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol.54, No.2, pp. 142-149, 2006.
- A. Kamimura, H. Kurokawa, E. Yoshida, S. Murata, K. Tomita and S. Kokaji, Automatic Locomotion Design and Experiments for a Modular Robotic System, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 314-325, 2005. (PDF)
- Akiya Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: Distributed Adaptive Locomotion by a Modular Robotic
System, M-TRAN II (From Local Adaptation to Global Coodinated Motion using CPG
Controllers), Proceedings of 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS2004), pp. 2370-2377, 2004. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya Kamimura, Satoshi Murata, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: Planning Behaviors of a Modular Robot: An Approach
Applying a Randomized Planner to Coherent Structure, Proceedings of 2004
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS2004), pp. 2056-2061, 2004. (PDF)
- Zack Butler, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus and Kohji Tomita: Generic
Decentralized Control for Lattice-Based Self-Reconfigurable Robots,
International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 919-937, 2004.
- Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Robots: Platforms for Emerging
Functionality, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 3139, pp. 312-330, Sprinver-Verlag, 2004. (PDF)
- Yoshida --DARS
- Esben H. Ostergaard, Kohji Tomita and Haruhisa Kurokawa: Distributed Metamorphosis
of Regular M-TRAN Structures, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)
6, Springer, 169-178.
- Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Akiya Kamimura, Satoshi
Murata and Shigeru Kokaji: Deformable Multi M-TRAN Structure Works as Walker
Generator, Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous
Systems (IAS-8), pp. 746-753, 2004. (PDF)
- Akiya Kamimura, Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: Research on Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot System
(Experiments on Reconfiguration and Locomotion with several Modules), JSME
International Journal Series C, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 1490-1496, 2003.
- Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya Kamimura, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Shigeru
Kokaji and Satoshi Murata: M-TRAN II: Metamorphosis from a Four-Legged Walker to
a Caterpillar, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2454-2459, 2003. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa, and Shigeru Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots - Hardware and
Software Development in AIST -. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference
on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (RISSP 2003), CD-ROM,
2003.
- Akiya Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Satoshi
Murata and Shigeru Kokaji. Automatic locomotion pattern generation for modular
robots. Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, pp. 714-720, 2003. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa and Shigeru Kokaji: Evolutionary Synthesis of Dynamic Motion and
Reconfiguration Process for a Modular Robot M-TRAN, Proceedings 2003 IEEE
International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and
Automation , pp. 1004-1010, 2003. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa and Shigeru Kokaji: Evolutionary Motion Synthesis for a Modular Robot
using Genetic Algorithm, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics , Vol. 15,
No. 2, pp. 227-237, 2003.
- Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa and Shigeru Kokaji: Homogeneous Distributed Mechanical Systems,
Morpho-Functional Machines: The New Species, pp. 167-193, Springer, 2003.
- Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya Kamimura, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Satoshi
Murata and Shigeru Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot (M-TRAN) and its
Motion Design, Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Control,
Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2002), 2002. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Shigeru Kokaji, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita
and Haruhisa Kurokawa: Get back in shape!, IEEE Robotics & Automation
Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 54-60, 2002.
- Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Akiya Kamimura, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: M-TRAN: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robotic System,
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 431-441, 2002. (PDF)
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa, and Shigeru Kokaji: A Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot:
Reconfiguration Planning and Experiments, International Journal of Robotics
Research , Vol. 21, No. 10, pp. 903-916, 2002. (PDF)
- Akiya Kamimura, Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: A Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot (MTRAN) -
Hardware and Motion Planning Software -, Distributed Autonomous Robotic
Systems 5, pp. 17-26, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
- Zack Butler, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus and Kohji Tomita: Generic
Decentralized Control for a Class of Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Proceedings
of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002) , pp. 809-816, 2002.
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa, and Shigeru Kokaji: A Motion Generation for a Modular Robot,
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 177-185, 2002.
- Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa
Kurokawa and Shigeru Kokaji: A Motion Planning Method for a Self-Reconfigurable
Modular Robot, Proceedings of 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2001), pp. 606-612, 2001. (PDF)
- Akiya Kamimura, Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji
Tomita and Shigeru Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot - Experiments on
Reconfiguration and Locomotion -, Proceedings of 2001 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2001) , pp. 590-597, 2001. (PDF)
- Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita and Shigeru
Kokaji: Concept of Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robotic System, Artificial
Intelligence in Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 383-387, 2001. (PDF)
- Zack Butler, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus and Kohji Tomita: Cellular Automata
for Decentralized Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Workshop on
Self-reconfigurable Robots, 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA2001) , 2001.
- .Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita and Shigeru
Kokaji: Self-Repairing Mechanical Systems, Autonomous Robots , Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 7-21, 2001. (PDF)
- Kohji Tomita, Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya
Kamimura and Shigeru Kokaji: Development of a Self-Reconfigurable Modular
Robotic System, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems
III, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4196, pp. 469-476, 2000. (PDF)
- Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Akiya
Kamimura and Shigeru Kokaji: Hardware Design of Modular Robotic System,
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS
2000), CD-ROM, 2000.
- Haruhisa Kurokawa, Kohji Tomita, Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata and Shigeru
Kokaji: Motion Simulation of a Modular Robotic System, 2000 IEEE
International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control a nd Instrumentation
(IECON-2000), CD-ROM, 2000. (PDF)
- Satoshi Murata, Eiichi Yoshida, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa and Shigeru Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robotic System, Proceedings of
International Workshop on Emergent Synthesis (IWES '99), pp. 113-118, 1999. (copy)
- Satoshi Murata, Kohji Tomita, Eiichi Yoshida, Haruhisa Kurokawa and Shigeru
Kokaji: Self-Reconfigurable Robot - Module Design and Simulation, Proceedings
of 6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-6), pp. 911-917, 1999. (copy)
- researches before M-TRAN
Press
- NHK news (14 June 2005 Movie 4MB in Japanese)
- NHK program (10 June 2005 Movie 5MB in Japanese)
- Discovery Channel (May-Apr 2005 Movie 6.7MB)
- Discover (Apr 2005)
- NewScientist (24 May 2005)
Patent
- Satoshi Murata, Three Dimensional Universal Unit for Movable Structure
(US Patent No.6,568,869 B1)
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