On the applicability of the decentralized control mechanism extracted from the true slime mold: A robotic case study with a serpentine robot

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sato, Takahide ^a   Kano, Takeshi ^a   Ishiguro, Akio ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYXOGASTRIA;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCOMOTION; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; ROBOTICS;

EID: 79958133588     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/6/2/026006     Document Type: Article

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