A Cricket-Controlled Robot Orienting towards a Sound Source

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

Volumn 6856 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-12

  Wessnitzer, Jan ^a   Asthenidis, Alexandros ^a   Petrou, Georgios ^a   Webb, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

hybrid robot control; insect; phonotaxis; trackball

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; CLOSED-LOOP; CURRENT LIMITATION; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HYBRID ROBOTS; INSECT; LOCALISATION; NEURAL MODELS; PHONOTAXIS; SOUND RECOGNITION; SOUND SOURCE; TRACKBALLS; HYBRID ROBOT CONTROLS;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ROBOTS;

ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80052800349     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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