Artificial spider: Eight-legged arachnid and autonomous learning of locomotion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6230 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Alshurafa, Nabil I ^a   Harmon, Justin T ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Animat; Artificial life; Locomotion; Physics modeling; Robotics; Simulated annealing; Spider

Indexed keywords

ANIMAT; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; LOCOMOTIVE AGILITY; SPIDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAIT ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTIVES; MOTORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33748530617     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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