A tree architecture with hierarchical data processing on a sensor-rich hexapod robot

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 595-608

  Minati, Ludovico ^a   Zorat, Alessandro ^b  

^a University of Trento ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hexapod robots; Multi sensor data fusion; Multiprocessing; Neural networks; Tree architectures

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

TREE ARCHITECTURES;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0036912132     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685530260390737     Document Type: Article

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