Whiskered texture classification with uncertain contact pose geometry

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7-13

  Evans, Mathew H ^a   Pearson, Martin J ^b   Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a   Fox, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROBOTICS LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; FEATURE-BASED; SPEED ESTIMATION; SURFACE ORIENTATION; SURFACE TEXTURES; TACTILE SENSING; TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURED SURFACE;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84872336619     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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