Sensor adaptation and development in robots by entropy maximization of sensory data

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 587-592

  Olsson, Lars ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a   Polani, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entropy maximization; Ontogenetic robotics; Sensory systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS;

BINNING; ENTROPY MAXIMIZATION; ONTOGENETIC ROBOTICS; SENSORY SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 28444496668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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