CB: A humanoid research platform for exploring neuroscience

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1097-1114

  Cheng, Gordon ^a,b   Hyon, Sang Ho ^a,b   Morimoto, Jun ^a,b   Ude, Aleš ^a   Hale, Joshua G ^a,b   Colvin, Glenn ^c   Scroggin, Wayco ^c   Jacobsen, Stephen C ^c  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Sarcos Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically motivated vision; Biped locomotion; Contact modeling; Control architecture; Dynamic simulation; Humanoid interaction; Humanoid robotics; Vision attention

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGICALLY MOTIVATED VISION; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; HUMANOID INTERACTION; HUMANOID ROBOTICS; VISION ATTENTION;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 34547506028     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855307781389356     Document Type: Article

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