Walknet, a bio-inspired controller for hexapod walking

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 397-419

  Schilling, Malte ^a   Hoinville, Thierry ^a   Schmitz, Josef ^a   Cruse, Holk ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decentralized architecture; Insect locomotion; Motor control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL DATA; COGNITIVE FACULTY; DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE; INSECT LOCOMOTION; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; MOTOR CONTROL; SIX-LEGGED ROBOTS; UNEVEN SURFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

HEXAPODA; PHASMATODEA;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; WALKING; REVIEW;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); WALKING;

EID: 84883456622     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-013-0563-5     Document Type: Article

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