Hierarchical control for self-assembling mobile trusses with passive and active links

This paper explores the space of active modular trusses, ranging from a passive truss with one independent active climbing module to fully self-reconfiguring dynamically controllable trusses comprised of active modules and passive struts. We describe a hardware design for truss climbing and present hierarchical algorithms for controlling hyper-redundant modular trusses

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