Active touch for robust perception under position uncertainty

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3020-3025

  Lepora, Nathan F ^a   Martinez Hernandez, Uriel ^a   Prescott, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; ACTIVE PERCEPTIONS; AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; PASSIVE PERCEPTION; POSITION UNCERTAINTIES; SENSORI-MOTOR LOOPS; SURFACE TEXTURES; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

BIOMIMETICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887266234     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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