Tactile texture discrimination in the robot-rat psikharpax

BIOSIGNALS 2010 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Bio-inpsired Systems and Signal Processing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 74-81

  N'Guyen, Steve ^a,b   Pirim, Patrick ^a,b   Meyer, Jean Arcady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Brain Vision Systems   (France)

Author keywords

Kinetic signature; Resonance; Robot; Tactile perception; Texture discrimination; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

FIXED HEAD; ITS EFFICIENCIES; MOBILE PLATFORM; NAVIGATION TASKS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; TACTILE PERCEPTION; TACTILE TEXTURE; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURE RECOGNITION; WHISKERS;

RESONANCE; ROBOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TEXTURES;

EID: 77956443271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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