Neural oscillator network-based controller for meandering locomotion of snake-like robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 5064-5069

  Inoue, Kousuke ^a   Ma, Shugen ^a,b   Jin, Chenghua ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Central Pattern Generator; Neural Oscillator Network; Snake Robots

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MOTION CONTROL; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE SHIFT;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS (CPG); NEURAL OSCILLATOR NETWORKS (NON); SNAKE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042647453     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1302520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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