The WLC principle for action-oriented perception

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6592, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Arena, Paolo ^a   Fortuna, Luigi ^a   Lombardo, Davide ^a   Patané, Luca ^a   Velarde, Manuel G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO PLURIDISCIPLINAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Navigation control; Nonlinear system; Perception; Winnerless Competition (WLC)

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEURONS; ROBOTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACTION ORIENTED PERCEPTION; NAVIGATION CONTROL; OLFACTORY BULB; WINNERLESS COMPETITION (WLC);

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 36248996391     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.724043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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