Name
Abstract | ||
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The Whiskerbot project is a collaborative project between robotics engineers, computational neuroscientists and ethologists, aiming to build a biologically inspired robotic implementation of the rodent whisker sensory system. The morphology and mechanics of the large whiskers (macro-vibrissae) have been modeled, as have the neural structures that constitute the rodent central nervous system responsible for macro-vibrissae sensory processing. There are two principal motivations for this project. First, by implementing an artificial whisker sensory system controlled using biologically plausible neural networks we hope to test existing models more thoroughly and develop new hypotheses for vibrissal sensory processing. Second, the sensory mode of tactile whiskers could be useful for general mobile robotic sensory deployment. In this article the robotic platform that has been built is detailed as well as some of the experiments that have been conducted to test the neural control algorithms and architectures inspired from neuroethological observations to mediate adaptive behaviors. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2007 | 10.1177/1059712307082089 | Adaptive Behaviour |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
whiskerbot project,artificial whisker sensory system,macro-vibrissae sensory processing,vibrissal sensory processing,sensory mode,collaborative project,rat whisker sensory system,neural control algorithm,rodent whisker sensory system,biologically plausible neural network,active touch system,mobile robotic sensory deployment,bio inspired robotics,central nervous system,neural network,system modeling,field programmable gate array,sensory system,mobile robot,adaptive behavior | Neural control,Computer science,Bio-inspired robotics,Artificial intelligence,Sensory system,Artificial neural network,Active touch,Adaptive behavior,Robotics,Sensory processing | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
15 | 3 | 1059-7123 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
29 | 2.33 | 9 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin J. Pearson | 1 | 215 | 26.34 |
| Anthony G. Pipe | 2 | 255 | 39.08 |
| Chris Melhuish | 3 | 747 | 87.61 |
| Ben Mitchinson | 4 | 145 | 17.74 |
| Tony J. Prescott | 5 | 145 | 15.77 |