A control system for a flexible spine belly-dancing humanoid

Artificial Life

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-87

  Or, Jimmy ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Belly dancing; Lamprey central pattern generator; Motor primitives; Neural networks; Next generation high degree of freedom flexible spine humanoid robot; Robot controller

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MANIPULATORS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FLEXIBLE SPINE; HUMANOID ROBOT; LAMPREY CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; MOTOR PRIMITIVES;

ROBOTICS;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; DANCING; HUMAN; LAMPREY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ROBOTICS; SPINE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DANCING; HUMANS; LAMPREYS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; ROBOTICS; SPINE;

EID: 33645834800     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454606775186464     Document Type: Article

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