Sensing through body dynamics

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 631-640

  Iida, F ^a   Pfeifer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Categorization; Legged locomotion; Object recognition; Passive dynamics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ARMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

BODY DYNAMICS; CATEGORIZATION; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; PASSIVE DYNAMICS;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 33746558115     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.03.005     Document Type: Article

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