Brain-inspired Bayesian perception for biomimetic robot touch

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5111-5116

  Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Sullivan, J Charlie ^b   Mitchinson, Ben ^a   Pearson, Martin ^b   Gurney, Kevin ^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

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; DECISION MAKING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS; BIO-MIMETIC ROBOT; DECISION PERFORMANCE; EVIDENCE ACCUMULATION; NEURAL MECHANISMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULTANEOUS PERCEPTIONS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84864487710     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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