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IJRR
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Extracting Object Contours with the Sweep of a Robotic Whisker Using Torque Information
Several recent studies have investigated the problem of object feature extraction with artificial whiskers. Many of these studies have used an approach in which the whisker is rot...
Joseph H. Solomon, Mitra J. Z. Hartmann
SAB
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Tactile Discrimination Using Template Classifiers: Towards a Model of Feature Extraction in Mammalian Vibrissal Systems
Abstract. Rats and other whiskered mammals are capable of making sophisticated sensory discriminations using tactile signals from their facial whiskers (vibrissae). As part of a pr...
Mathew H. Evans, Charles W. Fox, Martin J. Pearson...
FPL
2008
Springer
163views Hardware» more  FPL 2008»
14 years 14 days ago
Towards an "early neural circuit simulator": A FPGA implementation of processing in the rat whisker system
We have constructed a FPGA-based "early neural circuit simulator" to model the first two stages of stimulus encoding and processing in the rat whisker system. Rats use t...
Brian Leung, Yan Pan, Chris Schroeder, Seda Ogrenc...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Multifunctional Whisker Arrays for Distance Detection, Terrain Mapping, and Object Feature Extraction
: Several species of animals use whiskers to accurately navigate and explore objects in the absence of vision. We have developed inexpensive arrays of artificial whiskers based on ...
Aimee Schultz, Joseph Solomon, Michael A. Peshkin,...