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884. W.H. Lee, A.C. Sanderson, “Dynamic Analysis and Distributed Control of the Tetrobot Modular Reconfigurable Robotic System,” Autonomous Robots 10(2001):67-82. (Special Issue on Reconfigurable Robotics)

885. Pradeep K. Khosla, Takeo Kanade, Christiaan J.J. Paredis, “Reconfigurable modular manipulator system,” Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001; http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~paredis/rmms/

886. Michigan State University College of Engineering, DARP Microrobot Project; http://www.egr.msu.edu/microrobot/

887. “Modular robot ready to walk,” Distributed System Design Group, Intelligent Systems Institute, AIST, Japan, July 2001; http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/test/top-e.htm. See also: “Experiment of self-reconfiguration by 9-module,” 2001; http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/test/research-2-e.htm; and “M-TRAN II: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot,” updated 18 November 2003; http://unit.aist.go.jp/is/dsysd/mtran/English/index.html

888. S. Murata, E. Yoshida, A. Kamimura, H. Kurokawa, K. Tomita, S. Kokaji, “M-TRAN: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robotic System,” IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics, 7(2002):431-441; see also http://unit.aist.go.jp/is/dsysd/mtran/English/index.html

889. Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, Shigeru Kokaji, “A Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot : Reconfiguration Planning and Experiments,” Intl. J. Robotics Res. 21(October 2002):903-916.

890. Eiichi Yoshida, Shigeru Kokaji, Satoshi Murata, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, “Miniaturization of Self-reconfigurable Robotic System using Shape Memory Alloy Actuator,” J. Robotics and Mechatronics 12(2000):96-102.

891. Eiichi Yoshida, Shigeru Kokaji, Satoshi Murata, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, “Micro Self-reconfigurable Robot using Shape Memory Alloy,” J. Robotics and Mechatronics 13(2001):212-219; http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/smaunit/papers/rm00.pdf

892. Eiichi Yoshida, Satoshi Murata, Akiya Kamimura, Shigeru Kokaji, Kohji Tomita, Haruhisa Kurokawa, “Get Back In Shape! A Hardware Prototype Self-Reconfigurable Modular Microrobot that Uses Shape Memory Alloy,” IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 9(April 2002):54-60; http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/smaunit/papers/ra-mag2002dec.pdf. See laboratory website at: http://staff.aist.go.jp/e.yoshida/smaunit/index-e.htm

893. Swarm-bots Project, Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Community; http://www.swarm-bots.org/

894. Intelligent Autonomous Systems Engineering Laboratory, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, U.K.; http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/

895. Josh Bongard, “HYDRA Project,” Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 19 November 2001; http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/ailab/projects/hydra/

896. Koji Nishikawa, Takashi Nagai, Nobuyuki Takahashi, “Project: The Development of Amoeba Like Robot,” Laboratory of Autonomous Systems Engineering, Complex Systems Engineering, Hokkaido University; http://junji.complex.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/projects/AmoebaRobot/index.html

897. Random Morphology Robot Project, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, Germany; http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/alife/rmrobot/

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899. Dr. Gavin Miller’s Snake Robots; http://www.snakerobots.com/main.htm

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