Planning behaviors of a modular robot: An approach applying a randomized planner to coherent structure

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 2056-2061

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

^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

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNCHRONIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR (CPG); COHERENT STRUCTURES; PLANNING BEHAVIORS; RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREE (RRT);

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 14044278836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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