Automatic locomotion pattern generation for modular robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 714-720

  Kamimura, Akiya ^a   Kurokawa, Haruhisa ^a   Yoshida, Eiichi ^a   Tomita, Kohji ^a   Murata, Satoshi ^b   Kokaji, Shigeru ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTICS;

AUTOMATIC LOCOMOTION PATTERN GENERATION; BODY MOTION; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION METHOD; MODULE CONFIGURATION;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0345307708     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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