Control of a six-legged mobile robot using the soar cognitive architecture

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hanford, Scott D ^a   Janrathitikarn, Oranuj ^a   Long, Lyle N ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED VEHICLES; COGNITIVE ROBOTICS; GPS NAVIGATION; MULTITHREADED SOFTWARES; SOAR COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM USE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78149421237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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