Biologically inspired adaptive walking of a quadruped robot

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1850, 2007, Pages 153-170

  Kimura, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuoka, Yasuhiro ^a   Cohen, Avis H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive walking; Central pattern generator; Irregular terrain; Neural system model; Quadruped robot; Reflexes and responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846291777     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1919     Document Type: Article

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