Design methodologies for central pattern generators: An application to crawling humanoids

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-198

  Righetti, Ludovic ^a   Ijspeert, Auke Jan ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; MACHINE DESIGN; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); ROBOTICS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; COUPLED NONLINEAR OSCILLATORS; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; KEY CHARACTERISTICS; LOCOMOTION CONTROL; ON-LINE TRAJECTORY GENERATIONS; OSCILLATORY SYSTEM;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84959295028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.15607/rss.2006.ii.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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