Generating high-speed dynamic running gaits in a quadruped robot using an evolutionary search

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1685-1696

  Krasny, Darren P ^a   Orin, David E ^a  

^a IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GAIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; HIGH SPEED GAITS; QUADRUPED ROBOT; UNCONSTRAINED GALLOP;

MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BIOMIMETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; RUNNING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDBACK; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS; RUNNING;

EID: 3442892674     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2004.827611     Document Type: Article

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