Biologically inspired walking machines: Design, control and perception

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

Volumn 365, Issue 1850, 2007, Pages 133-151

  Dillmann, Rüdiger ^a   Albiez, Jan ^a   Gaßmann, Bernd ^a   Kerscher, Thilo ^a   Zöllner, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour control; Biorobotics; Environment models

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846305785     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1914     Document Type: Article

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