Active categorical perception of object shapes in a simulated anthropomorphic robotic arm

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-899

  Tuci, Elio ^a   Massera, Gianluca ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; categorical perception; evolutionary robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION; COARSE-GRAINED; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; MOTOR STATE; OBJECT SHAPE; OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES; TACTILE PERCEPTION; TACTILE SENSORS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 78649888459     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2010.2046174     Document Type: Article

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