A simple tactile probe for surface identification by mobile robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 534-544

  Giguere, Philippe ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; outdoor mobile robots; tactile sensing; terrain identification; unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION PATTERN; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; LOW-VELOCITY; MOBILE ROBOTIC; OUTDOOR MOBILE ROBOTS; OUTDOOR SURFACE; SINGLE-AXIS; SURFACE IDENTIFICATION; TACTILE PROBES; TACTILE SENSING; TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TIME WINDOWS; TRAINING DATASET;

ACCELEROMETERS; LANDFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

PROBES;

EID: 79958766930     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2119910     Document Type: Article

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