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SIMPAR
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Compliant Robot Actuation by Feedforward Controlled Emulated Spring Stiffness
Abstract. Existing legged robots lack energy-efficiency, performance and adaptivity when confronted with situations that animals cope with on a routine basis. Bridging the gap bet...
Katayon Radkhah, Stefan Kurowski, Thomas Lens, Osk...
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ICRA
2000
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Toward Biomorphic Control Using Custom aVLSI CPG Chips
The locomotor controller for walking, running, swimming, and flying animals is based on a Central Pattern Generator (CPG). Models of CPGs as systems of coupled non-linear oscillato...
M. Anthony Lewis, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Avis H. ...
ISER
2000
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Quadruped Robot Running With a Bounding Gait
: Scout II, an autonomous four-legged robot with only one actuator per compliant leg is described. We demonstrate the need to model the actuators and the power source of the robot ...
S. Talebi, Ioannis Poulakakis, Evangelos Papadopou...
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CEC
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Evolving Quadruped Gaits with a Heterogeneous Modular Robotic System
Abstract— There has been much research into the development of robotic controllers in educational, industrial and government research labs, but limited hardware budgets constrain...
Matthew D. Handier, Gregory S. Hornby
SMC
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Learning navigation for recharging a self-sufficient colony robot
—It is desirable that colony robots be autonomous and self-sufficient, which requires that they can perform their duties while maintaining enough energy to operate. In previous w...
Gary B. Parker, Richard Zbeda