Paper Info
Title
SCRATCHbot: active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot
Abstract
The rodent vibrissal (whisker) system is one of the most widely investigated model sensory systems in neuroscience owing to its discrete organisation from the sensory apparatus (the whisker shaft) all the way to the sensory cortex, its ease of manipulation, and its presence in common laboratory animals. Neurobiology shows us that the brain nuclei and circuits that process vibrissal touch signals, and that control the positioning and movement of the whiskers, form a neural architecture that is a good model of how the mammalian brain, in general, coordinates sensing with action. In this paper we describe SCRATCHbot, a biomimetic robot based on the rat whisker system, and show how this robot is providing insight into the operation of neural systems underlying vibrissal control, and is helping us to understand the active sensing strategies that animals employ in order to boost the quality and quantity of information provided by their sensory organs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15193-4_9
SAB
Keywords
Field
DocType
active tactile,whisker shaft,sensory apparatus,sensory organ,sensory cortex,rodent vibrissal,model sensory system,vibrissal control,process vibrissal touch signal,whiskered mobile robot,biomimetic robot,rat whisker system,sensory system,mobile robot
Computer vision,Sensory cortex,Computer science,Active sensing,Neural system,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Sensory system,Active touch,Mobile robot
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6226
0302-9743
3-642-15192-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.85
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin J. Pearson121526.34
Ben Mitchinson214517.74
Jason Welsby3151.46
Tony Pipe417124.02
Tony J. Prescott514515.77