A fully decentralized control of a serpentine robot based on the discrepancy between body, brain and environment

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2421-2426

  Watanabe, Wataru ^a   Sato, Takahide ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; DESIGN SCHEME; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; SERPENTINE ROBOTS; SIMULATION RESULT;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 76249100768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354268     Document Type: Conference Paper

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