Reconfiguration Algorithms for Cubic Modular Robots with Realistic Movement Constraints
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| author | NASA Space Robots Team Brunner, Josh Cheung, Kenneth C. Demaine, Erik D. Diomidova, Jenny Gregg, Christine Hendrickson, Della H. Kostitsyna, Irina |
| author_facet | NASA Space Robots Team Brunner, Josh Cheung, Kenneth C. Demaine, Erik D. Diomidova, Jenny Gregg, Christine Hendrickson, Della H. Kostitsyna, Irina |
| contents | We introduce and analyze a model for self-reconfigurable robots made up of unit-cube modules. Compared to past models, our model aims to newly capture two important practical aspects of real-world robots. First, modules often do not occupy an exact unit cube, but rather have features like bumps extending outside the allotted space so that modules can interlock. Thus, for example, our model forbids modules from squeezing in between two other modules that are one unit distance apart. Second, our model captures the practical scenario of many passive modules assembled by a single robot, instead of requiring all modules to be able to move on their own.
We prove two universality results. First, with a supply of auxiliary modules, we show that any connected polycube structure can be constructed by a carefully aligned plane sweep. Second, without additional modules, we show how to construct any structure for which a natural notion of external feature size is at least a constant; this property largely consolidates forbidden-pattern properties used in previous works on reconfigurable modular robots. |
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| spellingShingle | Reconfiguration Algorithms for Cubic Modular Robots with Realistic Movement Constraints NASA Space Robots Team Brunner, Josh Cheung, Kenneth C. Demaine, Erik D. Diomidova, Jenny Gregg, Christine Hendrickson, Della H. Kostitsyna, Irina Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics Robotics We introduce and analyze a model for self-reconfigurable robots made up of unit-cube modules. Compared to past models, our model aims to newly capture two important practical aspects of real-world robots. First, modules often do not occupy an exact unit cube, but rather have features like bumps extending outside the allotted space so that modules can interlock. Thus, for example, our model forbids modules from squeezing in between two other modules that are one unit distance apart. Second, our model captures the practical scenario of many passive modules assembled by a single robot, instead of requiring all modules to be able to move on their own. We prove two universality results. First, with a supply of auxiliary modules, we show that any connected polycube structure can be constructed by a carefully aligned plane sweep. Second, without additional modules, we show how to construct any structure for which a natural notion of external feature size is at least a constant; this property largely consolidates forbidden-pattern properties used in previous works on reconfigurable modular robots. |
| title | Reconfiguration Algorithms for Cubic Modular Robots with Realistic Movement Constraints |
| topic | Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15724 |