Optimal gaits for mechanical rectifier systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-71

  Blair, Justin ^a   Iwasaki, Tetsuya ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control systems; locomotion; motion planning; optimal control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL LOCOMOTION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; BODY MOVEMENTS; BODY SHAPES; EULER-LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; GENERAL CLASS; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUES; LINE SEARCHES; LOCOMOTION; MULTI BODY SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL GAITS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERIODIC FUNCTION; QUADRATIC COST FUNCTIONS; RECTIFIER MODEL; SMALL BODIES; SNAKE LIKES; THRUST FORCES; THRUST GENERATION;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; CYBERNETICS; DISTILLATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; REMOTE CONTROL;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78651344370     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2051074     Document Type: Article

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