Using sensorimotor contingencies for terrain discrimination and adaptive walking behavior in the quadruped robot puppy

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

Volumn 7426 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 54-64

  Hoffmann, Matej ^a   Schmidt, Nico M ^a   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^b   Maye, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

active perception; adaptive behavior; developmental robotics; object recognition; terrain recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADAPTIVE WALKING; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL ROBOTICS; DIFFERENT TERRAINS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; PROCESSING STEPS; QUADRUPED ROBOTS; SENSORIMOTOR CONTINGENCIES; SENSORY INFORMATION; SENSORY SIGNALS; SENSORY STIMULATION; TERRAIN RECOGNITION; TIME-SCALES; WORLD MODEL;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866028080     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33093-3_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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