To afford or not to afford: A new formalization of affordances toward affordance-based robot control

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-472

  Şahin, Erol ^a   Çakmak, Maya ^a   Doǧar, Mehmet R ^a   Uǧur, Emre ^a   Üçoluk, Gktrk ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Affordance; Autonomous robots; Control architecture; Formalization; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548985888     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712307084689     Document Type: Article

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