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Texture discrimination by an autonomous mobile brain-based device with whiskers

Year: 2004

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Whiskers are widely used by many animal species for navigation and texture discrimination. This paper describes Darwin IX, a mobile physical device equipped with artificial whiskers, the behavior of which is controlled by a neural simulation based on the rat somatosensory system. During its autonomous behavior, Darwin IX is able to discriminate among textures in its environment and learns to avoid textures that are paired with aversive events.

Source: Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings

DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1302498

Authors: A.K. Seth, J.L. McKinstry, G.M. Edelman, J.L. Krichmar

Institution: Neurosciences Institute

Language: English

Topic: Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: W. M. Keck Foundation, Neurosciences Research Foundation, Neurosciences Foundation

OpenAlex ID: W2153565739

FWCI: 6.818

Cites: 16

Cited by: 24

Related to: 10