Traversability: A case study for learning and perceiving affordances in robots

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 258-284

  Uǧur, Emre ^a,b,c   Şahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

affordance; autonomous robots; learning; perception; range image; traversability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955726933     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712310370625     Document Type: Article

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