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There are many research institutions dedicated to reconfigurable modular robot modeling and simulation. Various forms of reconfigurable modular robot that developed by hardware, some institutions design entity robot for self-reconfigurable experimental study. In this paper we analyze a couple of popular reconfigurable modular robot simulation platforms, and based on the analysis, we choose the Molecube simulation platform to fulfill a self-replication experiment, after design the self-replication and motion plan, The experiment proves the feasibility of proposed approach.
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Zhang, L., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Zhong, H. (2012). A Simulation Study of Modular Robot Self-replication. In: Li, Z., Li, X., Liu, Y., Cai, Z. (eds) Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems. ISICA 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34289-9_53
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