Neural preprocessing of auditory-wind sensory signals and modular neural control for auditory- And wind-evoked escape responses of walking machines

2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008

Volumn 2008-January, Issue , 2008, Pages 786-793

  Manoonpong, Poramate ^a   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a   Pasemann, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous hexapod robots; Biologically inspired robots; Neural control; Recurrent neural networks

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BIOMIMETICS;

ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GRYLLUS BIMACULATUS; NEURAL CONTROLLER; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PREPROCESSING SYSTEMS; SENSORY SIGNALS; SIX-LEGGED WALKING; WALKING MACHINES;

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 76249093741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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