Finding resonance: Adaptive frequency oscillators for dynamic legged locomotion

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3903-3909

  Buchli, Jonas ^a   Iida, Fumiya ^b   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

DYNAMIC LEGGED LOCOMOTION; FREQUENCY ADAPTATION; FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS; SELF STABILIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845604894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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