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A general problem in robotics is how to best utilize sensors to classify the robot’s environment. The BIOTACT project (BIOmimetic Technology for vibrissal Active Touch) is a collaboration between biologists and engineers that has led to many distinctive robots with artificial whisker sensing capabilities. One problem is to construct classifiers that can recognize a wide range of whisker sensations rather than constructing different classifiers for specific features. In this article, we demonstrate that a stationary naive Bayes classifier can perform such a general classification by applying it to various robot experiments. This classifier could be a key component of a robot able to learn autonomously about novel environments, where classifier properties are not known in advance.
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Lepora, N.F. et al. (2011). A General Classifier of Whisker Data Using Stationary Naive Bayes: Application to BIOTACT Robots. In: Groß, R., Alboul, L., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M., Prescott, T.J., Penders, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23232-9_2
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