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title: "Agent-Based Control for Object Manipulation with Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots"
authors:
  - "Jeremy Kubica"
  - "Arancha Casal"
  - "Tad Hogg"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/177"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2001/0177.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2001
pages: "1344-1351"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Agent-Based Control for Object Manipulation with Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots

Jeremy Kubica, Arancha Casal, Tad Hogg

*Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1344-1351.

## Abstract

We demonstrate multiagent control of modular selfreconfigurable (MSR) robots for object manipulation tasks and show how it provides a useful programming abstraction. Such robots consist of many modules that can move relative to each other and change their connectivity, thereby changing the robot’s overall shape to suit different tasks. We illustrate this approach through simulation experiments of the TeleCube MSR robot system.