Morphological communication: Exploiting coupled dynamics in a complex mechanical structure to achieve locomotion

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 613-621

  Rieffel, John A ^a   Valero Cuevas, Francisco J ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphological communication; Morphological computation; Robotics; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; COUPLED DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; DYNAMICAL COUPLING; HUMAN HANDS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MODULAR SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; ROBOTIC CONTROLS; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 77950787797     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0240     Document Type: Article

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