Optimal gait and form for animal locomotion

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Wampler, Kevin ^a   Popovi, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Character dynamics; Gait; Spacetime optimization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CHARACTER DYNAMICS; DERIVATIVE-FREE; GAIT; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HYBRID OPTIMIZATION METHOD; NONLOCAL; OPTIMAL GAITS; SPACETIME CONSTRAINTS; SPACETIME OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMATION; BIPED LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 70349668763     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1531326.1531366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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