Cerebellar dynamic state estimation for a biomorphic robot arm

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 877-882

  Assad, Christopher ^a   Trujillo, Salomon ^b   Dastoor, Sanjay ^c   Xu, Ling ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomorphic robotics; Cerebellum; Dynamic state estimation; McKibben actuators; State space methods

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE ESTIMATION;

BASIC FUNCTION NETWORK; CEREBELLUM-INSPIRED NEURAL NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27944459750     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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