Feathered flyer: Integrating morphological computation and sensory reflexes into a physically simulated flapping-wing robot for robust flight manoeuvre

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

Volumn 4648 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 756-765

  Shim, YoonSik ^a   Husbands, Phil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; STIFFNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; PATTERN GENERATION; REFLEXIVE PATTERN GENERATOR (RPG);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 38049071581     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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