Coupled oscillator control of autonomous mobile robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-198

  Clark, Murray R ^a   Anderson, Gary T ^a   Skinner, Robert D ^b  

^a Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; COUPLED OSCILLATORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0034273827     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008922502387     Document Type: Article

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