Whisker-based texture discrimination on a mobile robot

摘要: Sensing in the dark is a useful but challenging task both for biological agents and robots. Rats mice use whiskers active exploration of their environment. We have built robot equipped with two whisker arrays tested whether they can provide reliable texture information. While it relatively easy to classify data recorded at specified distance angle object, more achieve discrimination on mobile robot. used standard neural network classifier show that principle possible discriminate textures using sensors even under real-world conditions.