Evolution, robustness, and adaptation of sidewinding locomotion of simulated snake-like robot

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3102, Issue , 2004, Pages 627-639

  Tanev, Ivan ^a   Ray, Thomas ^a,b   Buller, Andrzej ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic programming; Locomotion; Snake like robot

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MACHINE DESIGN; PILES; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS;

AUTOMATIC DESIGN; MOTION PATTERN; OPEN DYNAMICS ENGINES; PHYSICAL FORCE; RUGGED TERRAIN; SNAKE-LIKE ROBOT; SNAKEBOT;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 35048887547     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24854-5_65     Document Type: Article

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