Sensory decoding in a tactile, interactive neurorobot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1909-1914

  Bucci, Liam D ^a   Chou, Ting Shuo ^b   Krichmar, Jeffrey L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECODING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; HAND MOVEMENT; NEURAL CODING; NEUROMORPHIC; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE TIMING DEPENDENT PLASTICITIES; SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK(SNN); TOUCH SENSING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84929207093     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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