Biomechatronics for embodied intelligence of an insectoid robot

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

Volumn 7102 LNAI, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Schneider, Axel ^a   Paskarbeit, Jan ^a   Schäffersmann, Mattias ^a   Schmitz, Josef ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

compliant joint; elastic actuation; hexapod robot; six legged walking

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-MECHATRONICS; BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS; BODY SEGMENT; BUS SYSTEMS; COMPLIANT JOINTS; CONTROL APPROACH; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; ELASTIC ACTUATION; HEXAPOD ROBOTS; INTEGRATED SENSORS; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; SIX-LEGGED WALKING;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84855371573     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25489-5_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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