Using response surfaces and expected improvement to optimize snake robot gait parameters

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1069-1074

  Tesch, Matthew ^a   Schneider, Jeff ^a   Choset, Howie ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPECTED IMPROVEMENTS; GAIT PARAMETERS; OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PHYSICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM; RESPONSE SURFACE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; RUN TEST; SNAKE ROBOTS; SURROGATE FUNCTION;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455185002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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