An Active Artificial Whisker Array for Texture Discrimination

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1044-1049

  Fend, Miriam ^a   Bovet, Simon ^a   Yokoi, Hiroshi ^b   Pfeifer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POWER DENSITY SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SENSORY MOTORS;

ARRAYS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; MICROPHONES; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0347409545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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