Distributed online learning of central pattern generators in modular robots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6226 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 402-412

  Christensen, David Johan ^a   Spröwitz, Alexander ^b   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; LOCOMOTION GAITS; ONLINE LEARNING; PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION; ROBOT MORPHOLOGY; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; ROUGH TERRAINS; STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION METHODS;

ANIMALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; MODULAR ROBOTS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

E-LEARNING;

EID: 78249241226     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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