Experimental verification of open-loop control for an underwater eel-like robot

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10-11, 2002, Pages 849-859

  McIsaac, Kenneth A ^a   Ostrowski, James P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Experimental verification; Motion planning; Robotic locomotion; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOTION PLANNING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

ROBOTIC LOCOMOTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036820994     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364902021010095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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