@InProceedings{	  hou2006hormone-inspired-adaptive-distributed-synchronization,
  abstract	= { In this paper, we present a hormone-inspired adaptive
		  distributed synchronization of reconfiguration robots. The
		  main approach is to use a combination of discrete
		  event-driven hormone communication and continuous
		  time-controlled motor motion. Without any prior knowledge,
		  all the modules' speed can be self-adjusted to adapt to
		  each other to achieve a collaborative motion. Simulation
		  and experimental results show that our method is robust to
		  accuracy of local timer, configuration change and
		  unexpected disturbance. },
  address	= {Tokyo, Japan},
  author	= {Feili Hou and Wei-Min Shen},
  booktitle	= {The 9th Intl.\ Conf.\ Intelligent and Autonomous Systems
		  (IAS-9)},
  month		= {March},
  title		= {Hormone-inspired Adaptive Distributed Synchronization of
		  Reconfigurable Robots},
  year		= {2006}
}