Crayfish inspired representation of space via haptic memory in a simulated robotic agent

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

Volumn 7375 LNAI, Issue , 2012, Pages 286-297

  Volz, Stephen G ^a   Basil, Jennifer ^a,b   Grasso, Frank W ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

biomimetics; crayfish; haptic; navigation; Robot; spatial memory; tactile; thigmotactic

Indexed keywords

CRAYFISH; HAPTIC; SPATIAL MEMORY; TACTILE; THIGMOTACTIC;

BIOMIMETICS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SHELLFISH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84864021785     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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