The sensory ego-sphere: A mediating interface between sensors and cognition

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-19

  Peters II, Richard Alan ^a   Hambuchen, Kimberly A ^b   Bodenheimer, Robert E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Robotics; Sensory fusion; Sensory motor coordination; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; MOTORS; ROBOTS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SPHERES;

AZIMUTHAL ANGLES; COORDINATE FRAMES; DATA SHARING; EVENT DETECTIONS; FIXED NUMBERS; MULTIPLE ROBOTS; SENSOR INFORMATIONS; SENSORY FUSION; SENSORY-MOTOR COORDINATION; SHORT-TERM MEMORY; SPATIO TEMPORALS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 58149484941     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-008-9098-3     Document Type: Article

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