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BIOADIT
2004
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Movement Generation and Control with Generic Neural Microcircuits
Abstract. Simple linear readouts from generic neural microcircuit models can be trained to generate and control basic movements, e.g., reaching with an arm to various target points...
Prashant Joshi, Wolfgang Maass
CDC
2009
IEEE
137views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Control of ramp-up current profile dynamics in tokamak plasmas via the minimal-surface theory
The central task of current profile control during the ramp-up phase of a tokamak discharge is to find the actuator trajectories that are necessary to achieve certain desired curre...
Chao Xu, Eugenio Schuster
CDC
2008
IEEE
143views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
A nonlinear, control-oriented model for ionic polymer-metal composite actuators
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) form an important category of electroactive polymers and have many potential applications in biomedical, robotic and micro/nano manipulation ...
Zheng Chen, Dawn R. Hedgepeth, Xiaobo Tan
IROS
2009
IEEE
187views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Three-dimensional Limit Cycle Walking with joint actuation
— This paper describes 3D biped walking generation and control based on Limit Cycle Walking. In our study, we use the simplest possible 3D biped model with three DOFs, incorporat...
Kentaro Miyahara, Yuzuru Harada, Dragomir N. Nench...
GECCO
2006
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary design of fault-tolerant analog control for a piezoelectric pipe-crawling robot
In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) is used to design faulttolerant analog controllers for a piezoelectric micro-robot. Firstorder and second-order functions are developed to ...
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, David A. Gwaltney