Design of an artificial central pattern generator with feedback controller

Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 185-192

  Nakada, Kazuki ^a   Asai, Tetsuya ^a   Amemiya, Yoshihito ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired walking robot; Central pattern generator; Feedback control loop

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED WALKING ROBOTS; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS; FEEDBACK CONTROL LOOP;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 3142783113     PISSN: 10798587     EISSN: 2326005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10798587.2004.10642876     Document Type: Article

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