Title
Neural network models of haptic shape perception
Abstract
Three different models of tactile shape perception inspired by the human haptic system were tested using an 8 d.o.f. robot hand with 45 tactile sensors. One model is based on the tensor product of different proprioceptive and tactile signals and a self-organizing map (SOM). The two other models replace the tensor product operation with a novel self-organizing neural network, the Tensor-Multiple Peak Self-Organizing Map (T-MPSOM). The two T-MPSOM models differ in the procedure employed to calculate the neural activation. The computational models were trained and tested with a set of objects consisting of hard spheres, blocks and cylinders. All the models learned to map different shapes to different areas of the SOM, and the tensor product model as well as one of the T-MPSOM models also learned to discriminate individual test objects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.robot.2007.05.003
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Haptic perception,Robotic hand,Tensor product,Self-organizing map
Tensor product,Computer vision,Computer science,Haptic perception,Self-organizing map,Computational model,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Perception,Haptic technology,Tactile sensor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
9
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
1.19
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Magnus Johnsson19913.51
Christian Balkenius223129.65