Generating spatiotemporal joint torque patterns from dynamical synchronization of distributed pattern generators

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2009, Pages

  Pitti, Alexandre ^a   Lungarella, Max ^b   Kuniyoshi, Yasuo ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal information flow; Motor synergies; Phase synchronization; Sensorimotor coordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866371757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.12.002.2009     Document Type: Article

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