A general classifier of whisker data using stationary naive bayes: Application to BIOTACT robots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6856 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-23

  Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Fox, Charles W ^a   Evans, Mat ^a   Mitchinson, Ben ^a   Motiwala, Asma ^a   Sullivan, J Charlie ^b   Pearson, Martin J ^b   Welsby, Jason ^b   Pipe, Tony ^b   Gurney, Kevin ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active touch; Bayes' rule; BIOTACT; Classifier; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TOUCH; BAYES' RULE; BIOTACT; KEY COMPONENT; NAIVE BAYES; NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIERS; ARTIFICIAL WHISKERS;

BIOMIMETICS; CLASSIFIERS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ROBOTICS; BIOMIMETIC PROCESSES; ROBOTS;

ROBOTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80052790235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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