Gait optimization for roombots modular robots - Matching simulation and reality

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3265-3272

  Moeckel, Rico ^a,b   Perov, Yura N ^a,b   Nguyen, Anh The ^a,b   Vespignani, Massimo ^a,b   Bonardi, Stephane ^a,b   Pouya, Soha ^a,b   Sproewitz, Alexander ^a,b   Van Den Kieboom, Jesse ^a,b   Wilhelm, Frederic ^a,b   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY STRUCTURES; HYBRID OPTIMIZATION METHOD; LOCOMOTION PARAMETERS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; OFF-LINE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE MODULAR ROBOTS; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EXPERIMENTS; HARDWARE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MECHANICS; MODULAR ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84893739804     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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