Recognising and manipulating objects using data from a whisker sensor array

Robotica

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 653-664

  Russell, R Andrew ^a   Wijaya, Jaury Adi ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Object detection and recognition; Robot sensing; Sensory whiskers

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROXIMITY SENSORS;

OBJECT DETECTION AND RECOGNITION; ROBOT SENSING; SENSORY WHISKERS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 25144440386     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574704000748     Document Type: Article

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