Schedule

We encourage participants and presenters to engage in-depth discussions. The 11 papers are orgnized into 3 groups and each talk is 20 minutes including questions.

Hardware (09:00 - 10:30)
Victor Zykov, Phelps Williams, Nicolas Lassabe and Hod Lipson Molecubes Extended: Diversifying Capabilities of Open-Source Modular Robotics [paper-in-pdf]
Alexander Sproewitz, Masoud Asadpour, Aude Billard, Pierre Dillenbourg and Auke Jan Ijspeert Roombots--Modular Robots for Adaptive Furniture [paper-in-pdf]
Wei-Min Shen, Robert Kovac, and Michael Rubenstein SINGO: A Single-End-Operative and Genderless Connector for Self-Reconfiguration, Self-Assembly and Self-Healing [paper-in-pdf]
Ming-Chiuan Shiu, Li-Chen Fu, Feng-Li Lian and Hou-Tsan Lee The Ionic bonding Modules for Self-Reconfigurable Robot [paper-in-pdf]

CONTROL (10:45-12:15)
Chih-han Yu and Radhika Nagpal Distributed Consensus and Self-Adapting Modular Robots [paper-in-pdf]
Akio Ishiguro, Takuya Umedachi, Taichi Kitamura, Toshiyuki Nakagaki and Ryo Kobayashi A Fully Decentralized Morphology Control of an Amoeboid Robot by Exploiting the Law of Conservation of Protoplasmic Mass [paper-in-pdf]
Anders Lyhne Christensen Rehan OÃ¢ÂÂGrady Marco Dorigo Towards Adaptive Morphogenesis in Self-Assembling Robots [paper-in-pdf]
M. Bordignon, K. Stoy, D.J. Christensen and U.P. Schultz Towards Interactive Programming of Modular Robots [paper-in-pdf]

Group 3: THERETICAL FOUNDATION AND ELECTRONICS (13:45-15:15)
Nicolas Brener, Faiz Ben Amar, Philippe Bidaud Designing Lattice Robots by using Discrete Displacement Groups [paper-in-pdf]
D. Brandt, J.C. Larsen, D.J. Christensen, R.F.M. Garcia, D. Shaikh, U.P. Schultz, and K. Stoy Flexible, FPGA-Based Electronics for Modular Robots [paper-in-pdf]
Serge Kernbach, Leonardo Ricotti, Jens Liedke, Paolo Corradi, Mathias Rothermel STUDY OF MACROSCOPIC MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF SYMBIOTIC ROBOTIC ORGANISMS [paper-in-pdf]

GENERAL DISCUSSION (15:30-16:30)

Questions? Email shen at isi.edu.