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Sense of Touch in Robots with Self-Organizing Maps

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Summary, in English

We review a number of self-organizing-robot systems that are able to extract features from haptic sensory information. They are all based on self-organizing maps (SOMs). First, we describe a number of systems based on the three-fingered-robot hand, i.e., the Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS) Haptic-Hand II, that successfully extracts the shapes of objects. These systems explore each object with a sequence of grasps while superimposing the information from individual grasps after cross-coding proprioceptive information for different parts of the hand and the registrations of tactile sensors. The cross-coding is done by employing either the tensor-product operation or a novel self-organizing neural network called the tensor multiple peak SOM (T-MPSOM). Second, we present a system based on proprioception that uses an anthropomorphic robot hand, i.e., the LUCS haptic-hand III. This system is able to distinguish objects both according to shape and size. Third, we present systems that are able to extract and combine the texture and hardness properties from explored materials.

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

498-507

Publication/Series

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volume

27

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)

Keywords

  • Cognitive robotics
  • manipulators
  • self-organizing feature maps
  • tactile sensors
  • unsupervised learning

Status

Published

Project

  • Ikaros: An infrastructure for system level modelling of the brain
  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1941-0468