Towards hierarchical blackboard mapping on a whiskered robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1356-1366

  Fox, C W ^a   Evans, M H ^a   Pearson, M J ^b   Prescott, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Blackboard system; Hierarchical; Mapping; Object recognition; Shape recognition; Tactile; Whiskers

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN; BLACKBOARD SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL; SHAPE RECOGNITION; TACTILE;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MAPPING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84867840384     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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