Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation

2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 720-725

  Evans, Mat ^a   Fox, Charles W ^a   Pearson, Martin J ^b   Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT CONTROL; DATA SETS; DISASTER AREAS; MOVING OBJECTS; RADIAL DISTANCE; SENSORY MODALITY; SENSORY MOTORS; SENSORY SIGNALS; SHAPE PERCEPTION; TACTILE PERCEPTION; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION;

BIOMIMETICS; RATS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952977494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2010.5723415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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