Active contour following to explore object shape with robot touch

2013 World Haptics Conference, WHC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 341-346

  Martinez Hernandez, Uriel ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^b   Dodd, Tony J ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a   Natale, Lorenzo ^b   Lepora, Nathan F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

active tactile perception; contour following; naive Bayes classifier; perception action; robotic finger; tactile exploration

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR FOLLOWING; NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIERS; PERCEPTION-ACTION; ROBOTIC FINGER; TACTILE EXPLORATION; TACTILE PERCEPTION;

BIOMIMETICS;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84881461941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2013.6548432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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