Modeling of mesencephalic locomotor region for Nao humanoid robot

Industrial Robot

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 136-145

  Shahbazi, Hamed ^a   Jamshidi, Kamal ^a   Monadjemi, Amir Hasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Central pattern generators; Curvilinear biped locomotion; Decision making; Humanoid robots; Nao robots; Policy gradient learning; Robotics; Robots; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BASIC MODELS; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOLOGICAL MOTORS; BIPEDAL WALKING; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; DECISION UNIT; FREE PARAMETERS; HUMANOID ROBOT; POLICY GRADIENT; POLICY GRADIENT LEARNING; RESEARCH LIMITATIONS; ROBOCUP; SOCCER PLAYER; SPINAL CORDS;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; DECISION MAKING; DOSIMETRY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPORTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 84857849081     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911211201591     Document Type: Article

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