Toward Anthropomimetic robotics: Development, simulation, and control of a musculoskeletal torso

Artificial Life

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 171-193

  Wittmeier, Steffen ^a   Alessandro, Cristiano ^b   Bascarevic, Nenad ^c   Dalamagkidis, Konstantinos ^a   Devereux, David ^d   Diamond, Alan ^d   Jäntsch, Michael ^a   Jovanovic, Kosta ^b   Knight, Rob ^e   Marques, Hugo Gravato ^a   Milosavljevic, Predrag ^b   Mitra, Bhargav ^d   Svetozarevic, Bratislav ^f   Potkonjak, Veljko ^c   Pfeifer, Rolf ^b   Knoll, Alois ^a   Holland, Owen ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c University of Belgrade   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e Robot Studio SARL   (France)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropomimetic robots; Morphological computation; Motor control; Physics based modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ROBOTS;

ANTHROPOMIMETIC ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGICAL COMPUTATION; MOTOR CONTROL; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; SIMULATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 85047687435     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/ARTL_a_00088     Document Type: Article

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