Machine learning for fast quadrupedal locomotion

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 611-616

  Kohl, Nate ^a   Stone, Peter ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; ON-BOARD SENSOR TECHNOLOGY; QUADRUPEDAL LOCOMOTION; ROBOT PLATFORMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 9444275934     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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