{"id":698,"date":"2017-12-29T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/N3W\/?p=698"},"modified":"2018-01-02T23:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T23:08:56","slug":"lateral-lattice-reconfiguration-using-leg-extending-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Lateral Lattice Reconfiguration Using Leg Extending Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>LATERAL LATTICE RECONFIGURATION USING LEG EXTENDING CAPABILITIES<\/h1>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-right: 22px;\"><\/div>\n<p>This type of modular self-reconfigurable system is capable of lattice based transformations to change its shape by using the leg extending and retracting feature. Figure 6a shows several modules initially in a state where there is an empty space above module E and between modules B and C. The following example shows how the modules in this matrix can translate a module to fill in this empty space by moving another module to that location.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-703 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/matrix3a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Figure 6b shows the first transition state of the matrix given in Figure 6a. It involves disconnecting and shortening the legs between modules B and D, and beginning the process of extending the legs between modules B and C to join them together.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-702\" src=\"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/matrix3b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Figure 6c shows module B translating horizontally by extending the leg connections between modules A and B until the extending legs between modules B and C join together.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-701\" src=\"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/matrix3c.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Figure 6d shows modules A and B disconnecting from each other and retracting, and the use of module C to align module B above module E by shortening the legs connecting modules B and C together.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-700\" src=\"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/matrix3d.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Figure 6e shows the legs for modules B and E extending and joining together and the legs that disconnected between modules A and B completely retracted; this completes the transition.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-699\" src=\"https:\/\/selfreconfigurable.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/matrix3e.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This matrix could also have accomplished the same goal, also with lattice transitions, by first extending the legs between modules B and C to connect to each other, then disconnecting and shortening the legs that join modules B and D together, then shortening the legs that join B and C together, then finally extending the legs between modules B and E to connect these modules to each other. This version describes how it is possible to accomplish this task without the first column of modules in the matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LATERAL LATTICE RECONFIGURATION USING LEG EXTENDING CAPABILITIES This type of modular self-reconfigurable system is capable of lattice based transformations to change its shape by using the leg extending and retracting feature. Figure 6a shows several modules initially in a state where there is an empty space above module E and between modules B and C. 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