Self Assembly
- George M. Whitesides
- A researcher in biochemistry, materials science, catalysis and physical organic chemistry with a long list of accomplishments. Among other things, he recently has done some work on self-assembly; a topic related to self-reconfiguring robots. This page is mostly a short biography, but a link to the research group's site is hidden at the bottom of the page.
MEMS: Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
- MEMS: What is it?
- This page gives an explanation of what MEMS technology is about. For self-reconfiguring robots, MEMS could become a physical implementation of extremely small robot modules. The possibilities for such self-reconfiguring robotic systems are great.
- MEMS: Main site
- This is just to give a quick link to a major information resource on MEMS: memsnet.org. The explanation page about MEMS linked above is also held on this site.
Swarms
- SWARMS Project
- The homepage for the Scalable sWarms of Autonomous Robots and Mobile Sensors (SWARMS) project. This project studies swarming behavior in nature and seeks to apply it to groups of networked, autonomous robots. You can get to the same page from the url: http://www.grasp.upenn.edu/swarms/
- SWARM Project: People Directory
- Directory of people involved in the SWARMS project.
Conferences / Journals
- WAFR: Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
- The current homepage for this robotics conference.
- ICRA: IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation
- The current homepage for another robotics-related conference.
- IJRR: The International Journal of Robotics Research
- The official website for this big robotics research journal.