Adaptivity via alternate freeing and freezing of degrees of freedom

ICONIP 2002 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing: Computational Intelligence for the E-Age

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 482-487

  Lungarella, M ^a   Berthouze, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental robotics; embodiment; freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom; neural oscillator

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FREEZING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MECHANICS;

DEVELOPMENTAL ROBOTICS; EMBODIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; HUMANOID ROBOT; NEURAL OSCILLATOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSITIONAL PERIOD;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 84965017825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICONIP.2002.1202217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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