Biomimetics of human movement: Functional or aesthetic?

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Harris, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL OBJECTIVES; NATURAL ARCHITECTURE; NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; PROSTHETIC DEVICES; RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES; SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BRAIN; NEURONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BIOMIMETICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

BIOMIMETICS; ESTHETICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS;

EID: 70350513051     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/3/033001     Document Type: Article

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