Walking capabilities of Gregor controlled through Walknet

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6592, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Arena, Paolo ^a   Patané, Luca ^a   Schilling, Malte ^b   Schmitz, Josef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hexapod robot; Locomotion control; Walknet

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ROBOTS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

HEXAPOD ROBOT; LOCOMOTION CONTROL; WALKING CAPABILITIES; WALKNET;

LOCOMOTIVES;

EID: 36248973060     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.724091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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