Central pattern generators based on Matsuoka oscillators for the locomotion of biped robots

Artificial Life and Robotics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 264-269

  Liu, Guang Lei ^a   Habib, Maki K ^a   Watanabe, Keigo ^a   Izumi, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biped robots; Central pattern generator (CPG); Neural network; Neural oscillator

Indexed keywords

ANKLE JOINTS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED CONTROL; BIPED ROBOT; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR (CPG); CONTROL STRATEGIES; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; COUPLING FACTOR; KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NEURAL OSCILLATOR; RHYTHM GENERATOR; RHYTHMIC MOTION; TIME CONSTANTS; WALKING PATTERN;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MACHINE DESIGN; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); ROBOTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 54849403251     PISSN: 14335298     EISSN: 16147456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10015-007-0479-z     Document Type: Article

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