Excitable chemical medium controller for a robotic hand: Closed-loop experiments

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 3347-3354

  Yokoi, Hiroshi ^a   Adamatzky, Andy ^b   De Lacy Costello, Ben ^b   Melhuish, Chris ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active chemical media; Actuators; Belousov Zhabotsinky reaction; Robotics; Wave dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MICROCONTROLLERS; SENSORS;

ACTIVE CHEMICAL MEDIA; BELOUSOV-ZHABOTSINKY REACTION; CLOSED-LOOP EXPERIMENTS; WAVE DYNAMICS;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 10444286622     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127404011363     Document Type: Article

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