Evolving locomotion gaits for quadruped walking robots

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-267

  Golubovic, Dragos ^a   Hu, Huosheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motion; Programming and algorithm theory; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GAIT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MOTION PLANNING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LOCOMOTION GAITS; NOISY EVALUATION FUNCTIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; QUADRUPED WALKING ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 20444436752     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510593956     Document Type: Article

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