Cubical modular robots

David Blanc; Nir Shvalb

doi:10.1007/s41468-026-00236-0

Cubical modular robots

David Blanc
, Nir Shvalb

Department of Mathematics

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Abstract

We study a simple type of modular robot, consisting of a collection of identical d-dimensional cubes in Rd, which change position by sliding along each other (parallel to the axes). We describe the configuration space of such a mechanism, and show that it has a dense open smooth submanifold, and that book singularities are generic in its complement.

Original language	English
Article number	8
Journal	Journal of Applied and Computational Topology
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s41468-026-00236-0
State	Published - Jun 2026

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Keywords

Configuration space
Mechanism
Modular robot
Reconfigurable
Robotics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geometry and Topology
Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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