Adaptive Neural Control of Walking Robots

An important title in the "Engineering Research Series" Adaptive Neural Control of Walking Robots brings together two important areas of technological development: adaptive neural control and mobile/walking robots.

COMPLETE CONTENTS:
* Introduction and background
* A generic intelligent control hierarchy
* Insect observations and hexapod design
* Models for co--ordination of walking
* Leg trajectory planning and generation
* Hexapod kinematics and dynamics
* The theory of stable adaptive neural control for open--chain systems
* Stable neural control of systems with constraints and closed kinematic chains
* Hexapod experiments
* Summary, conclusions, and outlook.

Introduction and background
a genetic intelligent control hierarchy
insect observation and hexapod design
models for co-ordination of walking
leg trajectory planning and generation
hexapod kinematics and dynamics
the theory of stable adaptive neural control or open-chain systems
stable neural contol of systems with constraints and closed kinematic chains
hexapod experiments.