Configuration information acquisition and matching in self-reconfiguring process of modular self-reconfigurable robots

摘要

Configuration information acquisition and matching are two important steps in the self-reconfiguringprocess of self-reconfigurable robots.The process of configuration information acquisition was introduced,and a self-reconfiguring configuration matching strategy based on graded optimization mechanism was pro-posed.The first-grade optimization was to search common connection between matching scheme and goalconfiguration.The second-grade optimization,whose object function was constructed in terms of configu-ration connectivity,was to search common topology according to the results of the first-grade optimization.The entire process of configuration information acquisition and matching was verified by an experiment andgenetic algorithm (GA).The result shows the accuracy of the configuration information acquisition andthe effectiveness of the configuration matching method.