Summary Turing discovered in the forties that there exists a universal computing machine that is capable of simulating any other computing machine. The grand vision of modular robotics is to achieve a similar feat in the physical world and create a universal robot: a robot capable of simulating any other physical robot. Modular robots are a good candidate for realizing this vision because they are composed of robotic modules, which can be connected in many different ways, allowing these robots to assume the shape of any other robot. In this talk we will take a practical approach and based on our current work in modular robotics discus if it will be possible to realize this grand vision.
Resume Kasper Stoy (KS) is an associate professor at the Maersk McKinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark (USD), and a co-director of USD’s Modular Robotics Lab. KS received his MSc from the University of Aarhus, Denmark and his PhD from USD in 2003. He spent a year of his PhD studies at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, CA, USA. KS is the author of the book "Self-Reconfigurable Robots: An Introduction" (MIT Press, 2009, to appear) has published thirteen first-author papers of which three received awards. He organizes international workshops, serves as reviewer for IEEE conferences, International Journal of Advanced Robotics, Journal of Autonomous Robots, and Journal of Simulation of Adaptive behaviour and several more.
KS currently manages the ``Morphing Production Lines'' research project funded by the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production and is USD's Pi on the EU project Locomorph. He also developed the first version of the Player component of the multi-robot simulation tool Player/Stage, which is the most widely used simulation in this field world-wide.
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