Four-legged walking gait control using a neuromorphic chip interfaced to a support vector learning algorithm

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Still, Susanne ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^b   Hepp, Klaus ^c   Douglas, Rodney J ^d  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Neuroinformatics Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; FOUR-LEGGED ROBOT; INPUT PARAMETER; NEUROMORPHIC CHIPS; NEUROMORPHIC VLSI; SUPPORT VECTOR LEARNING; TRANSISTOR MISMATCH;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84898929560     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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