Neural control and adaptive neural forward models for insect-like, energy-efficient, and adaptable locomotion of walking machines

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Manoonpong, Poramate ^a   Parlitz, Ulrich ^a,b   Wörgötter, Florentin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Central pattern generators; Efference copy; Local leg control; Recurrent neural networks; Sensory feedback; Walking gait

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; CLIMBING; GAIT; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MACHINE LEARNING; MOTOR CONTROL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SENSOR; SENSORY FEEDBACK; WALKING MACHINE;

EID: 84878282737     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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