DocumentCode
3034770
Title
Texture discrimination by an autonomous mobile brain-based device with whiskers
Author
Seth, Anil K. ; McKinstry, Jeffrey L. ; Edelman, Gerald M. ; Krichmar, Jeffrey L.
Author_Institution
Neurosciences Inst., San Diego, CA, USA
Volume
5
fYear
2004
fDate
26 April-1 May 2004
Firstpage
4925
Abstract
Whiskers are widely used by many animal species for navigation and texture discrimination. This paper describes Darwin IX, a mobile physical device equipped with artificial whiskers, the behavior of which is controlled by a neural simulation based on the rat somatosensory system. During its autonomous behavior, Darwin IX is able to discriminate among textures in its environment and learns to avoid textures that are paired with aversive events.
Keywords
intelligent robots; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile robots; Darwin IX; artificial whiskers; autonomous mobile brain-based device; mobile physical device; neural simulation control; rat somatosensory system; texture discrimination; Computational modeling; Haptic interfaces; Mobile robots; Navigation; Nervous system; Robot sensing systems; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Workstations;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on
ISSN
1050-4729
Print_ISBN
0-7803-8232-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302498
Filename
1302498
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