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AR
2005
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13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic turning control of a quadruped locomotion robot using oscillators
The authors have proposed a dynamic turning control system of a quadruped robot by using nonlinear oscillators. It is composed of a spontaneous locomotion controller and voluntary...
Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Hiroomi Toui, Kazuo Tsuchiya
GECCO
2008
Springer
113views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
14 years 18 days ago
Genetic programming based automatic gait generation for quadruped robots
This paper introduces a new approach to develop a fast gait for quadruped robot using genetic programming (GP). Several recent approaches have focused on the genetic algorithm (GA...
Kisung Seo, Soohwan Hyun
IJCNN
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Biologically Inspired Neural Controllers for Motor Control in a Quadruped Robot
This paper presents biologically inspired neural controllers for generating motor patterns in a quadruped robot. Sets of arti cial neural networks are presented which provide 1 p...
Aude Billard, Auke Jan Ijspeert
ISER
2004
Springer
152views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Walking of a Quadruped Robot in Outdoor Environment based on Biological Concepts
We have been trying to induce a quadruped robot to walk with medium walking speed on irregular terrain based on biological concepts. We propose the essential conditions for stable ...
Hiroshi Kimura, Yasuhiro Fukuoka
ICRA
2006
IEEE
161views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Quadruped Robot Obstacle Negotiation via Reinforcement Learning
— Legged robots can, in principle, traverse a large variety of obstacles and terrains. In this paper, we describe a successful application of reinforcement learning to the proble...
Honglak Lee, Yirong Shen, Chih-Han Yu, Gurjeet Sin...
IROS
2008
IEEE
129views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Gait transition by tuning muscle tones using pneumatic actuators in quadruped locomotion
— The development of an oscillator controller for a quadruped robot with antagonistic pairs of pneumatic actuators is reported. Periodic motions of the legs switch between the sw...
Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Toshiya Kobayashi, Takashi Ino...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
109views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Use of a novel multipart controller for the parametric study of a trotting quadruped robot
— In this paper a novel multipart control is developed for a trotting quadruped robot. The control is designed to drive the quadruped to a steady-state motion with desired forwar...
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
ICRA
2009
IEEE
138views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamically running quadrupeds self-stable region expansion by mechanical design
— Dynamic stability allows running animals to maintain preferred speed during locomotion over rough terrain. It appears that rapid disturbance rejection is an emergent property o...
Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos