A test bed for insect-inspired robotic control

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1811, 2003, Pages 2267-2285

  Reiser, Michael B ^a,b   Dickinson, Michael H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour based robotics; Insect based robots; Obstacle avoidance; Optic flow; Visual flight Control

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142091662     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1259     Document Type: Article

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