BoxyBot: A swimming and crawling fish robot controlled by a central pattern generator

Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 643-648

  Lachat, Daisy ^a   Crespi, Alessandro ^a   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Crawling; Fish robot; Swimming; Under water robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CONTROL THEORY; DC MOTORS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SYSTEM STABILITY;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATORS (CPG); FISH ROBOTS; UNDER WATER ROBOTICS; WATER SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845567529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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