Whiskered robots
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Author: Dr. Martin J. Pearson, Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Author: Dr. Tony Pipe, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol, United Kingdom
Whiskered robots This article will briefly cover: Whiskered robots that carry out active touch for object shape and texture discrimination
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Overview
At the time of writing, touch is an under utilised sensory mode in robotics, with vision remining the preferred method of spatial exploration. There are examples in the animal kingdom of creatures occupying environments in which a developed sense of touch rather vision is advantageous for exploration. Similar operational environments also feature in the engineering requirement of certain robotic platforms which, in part, justifies a biomimetic approach to investigate and evaluate possible artificial touch sensors. Perhaps more persuasively, there are many example situations, in both the animal kingdom and in engineering requirement, where a developed sense of touch would be an extremely beneficial complement, rather than as a replacement, for vision. In this article the use of whiskers as a method of endowing robots with a sense of touch is addressed. An initial discussion about the advantages of a biomimetic approach in the development of whiskered robots is followed by a summary of the history of whiskered robot research. The final section of this article will focus on the more recent developments and contributions that have been made to the field, focussing on the two way exchange of ideas and observations between engineers and biologists.
Biomimetic whiskers
History
State of the art
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External links
See also
Brain, Neuron, Scholarpedia:Instructions for authors
| Invited by: | Prof. Tony J. Prescott, Dept Psychology, Univ of Sheffield, UK |
