Using hardware models to quantify sensory data acquisition across the rat vibrissal array

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Gopal, Venkatesh ^a   Hartmann, Mitra J Z ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE MODELS; NEURAL COMPUTATIONS; NEURAL ENCODING; SENSORY INFORMATION; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; TACTILE SENSING; WALL FOLLOWING;

ANIMALS; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HARDWARE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

RATS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; ROBOTICS; SENSATION; TOUCH; TRANSDUCER; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; ROBOTICS; SENSATION; TOUCH; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36548998847     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/2/4/S03     Document Type: Conference Paper

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