Multifunctional whisker arrays for distance detection, terrain mapping, and object feature extraction

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2588-2593

  Schultz, Aimee E ^a   Solomon, Joseph H ^a   Peshkin, Michael A ^a   Hartmann, Mitra J ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rat; Somatosensory; Tactile; Vibrissa; Whisker

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NEUROLOGY; SENSORS; SPACECRAFT; STRAIN GAGES; VISION;

SOMATOSENSORY; TACTILE SENSORS; VIBRISSA;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846165463     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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