Sensory prediction on a whiskered robot: A tactile analogy to "optical flow"

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Schroeder, Christopher L ^a   Hartmann, Mitra J Z ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Prediction; Rat; Tactile flow; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; ROBOTICS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 84870155935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2012.00009     Document Type: Article

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