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Tyler Hummer
dblp:371/9361
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot manipulation · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot manipulation
modular robot |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | A non-cubic space-filling modular robot · ICRA 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
genderless passive docking · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | A non-cubic space-filling modular robotabstractSpace-filling building blocks of diverse shape permeate nature at all levels of organization, from atoms to honeycombs, and have proven useful in artificial systems, from molecular containers to clay bricks. But, despite the wide variety of space-filling polyhedra known to mathematics, only the cube has been explored in robotics. Thus, here we roboticize a non-cubic space-filling shape: the rhombic dodecahedron. This geometry offers an appealing alternative to cubes as it greatly simplifies rotational motion of one cell about the edge of another, and increases the number of neighbors each cell can communicate with and hold on to. To better understand the challenges and opportunities of these and other space-filling machines, we manufactured 48 rhombic dodecahedral cells and used them to build various superstructures. We report locomotive ability of some of the structures we built, and discuss the dis/advantages of the different designs we tested. We also introduce a strategy for genderless passive docking of cells that generalizes to any polyhedra with radially symmetrical faces. Future work will allow the cells to freely roll/rotate about one another so that they may realize the full potential of their unique shape. Tyler Hummer, Sam Kriegman |
ICRA | 1 |