Towards continuously reconfigurable self-designing robotics

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1761-1766

  Lipson, H ^a   Pollack, J B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY; RECONFIGURABLE SELF DESIGNING ROBOTICS; SIGMOIDAL CONTROL NEURONS;

ACTUATORS; CONTROL; DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033689561     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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