Exploiting inherent regularity in control of multilegged robot locomotion by evolving neural fields

Proceedings of the 2011 3rd World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, NaBIC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 401-408

  Inden, Benjamin ^a   Jin, Yaochu ^b   Haschke, Robert ^a   Ritter, Helge ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multilegged Walking; Neuroevolution

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; COMPLEX BEHAVIOR; DESIGN CONTROLLERS; GAIT CONTROL; IN-CONTROL; MULTI-LEGGED ROBOTS; MULTILEGGED WALKING; NEURAL FIELDS; NEUROEVOLUTION; ROUGH TERRAINS; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS;

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 83755194851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NaBIC.2011.6089623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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