JAIST Repository: Biologically Inspired Robot Arm Control Using Neural Oscillators

JAIST Repository

https://dspace.jaist.ac.jp/

Title

Biologically Inspired Robot Arm Control Using

Neural Oscillators

Author(s)

Yang, Woosung; Chong, Nak Young; You, Bum Jae

Citation

Robotics 2010: Current and Future Challenges:

133-148

Issue Date

2010-02

Type

Book

Text version

publisher

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10119/9559

Rights

Woosung Yang, Nak Young Chong and Bum Jae You

(2010). Biologically Inspired Robot Arm Control

Using Neural Oscillators, Robotics 2010 Current

and Future Challenges, Houssem Abdellatif (Ed.),

ISBN: 978-953-7619-78-7, InTech, Available from:

http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/bio

logically-inspired-robot-arm-control-using-neural-oscillators

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