Real-time social touch gesture recognition for sensate robots

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3715-3720

  Knight, Heather ^a   Toscano, Robert ^a   Stiehl, Walter D ^a   Chang, Angela ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Breazeal, Cynthia ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSOR; FULL BODY; GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM; REAL TIME; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; TOUCH SENSING;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SENSORS;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 76249125325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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