Tactile identification of objects using Bayesian exploration

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3056-3061

  Xu, Danfei ^a   Loeb, Gerald E ^a,b   Fishel, Jeremy A ^a  

^a SynTouch LLC   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DEXTEROUS HANDS; EXPLORATION ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ALGORITHMS; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; SENSORY ABILITIES;

ALGORITHMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOTIC ARMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887293185     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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