Insect walking is based on a decentralized architecture revealing a simple and robust controller

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1850, 2007, Pages 221-250

  Cruse, Holk ^a   Dürr, Volker ^a   Schmitz, Josef ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gait; Insect; Leg coordination; Leg movement; Pattern generation; Walking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846276939     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1913     Document Type: Article

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