Feedback can reduce the specification complexity of motor programs

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 213-223

  Egerstedt, Magnus B ^a   Brockett, Roger W ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata; Complexity theory; Feedback; Motion control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTORS;

MOTOR PROGRAMS;

FEEDBACK CONTROL;

EID: 0037291277     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2002.808466     Document Type: Article

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