Locomoting with less computation but more morphology

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2008-2013

  Matsushita, Kojiro ^a   Lungarella, Max ^a   Paul, Chandana ^b   Yokoi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biped locomotion; Materials; Mechanical design; Morphology; New artificial intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; HUMANOID ROBOTS; INTRINSIC DYNAMICS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 33846126593     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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