Identifying Relevant Tactile Features for Object Identification

  • Matthias Schöpfer
  • Michael Pardowitz
  • Robert Haschke
  • Helge Ritter
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Part of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR, volume 76)

Abstract

Tactile sensing arrays for robotic applications become more and more popular these days. This allows us to equip robots with sensing abilities similar to those of our human skin. This article presents an approach to tactile-based recognition of objects and evaluates the utility of various feature extractors for tactile processing.

Extracting these features from a tactile database, we describe a system that combines a discretization step with the well-known C4.5 algorithm in an object classification task. We analyze the usefulness of the features in terms of entropy-based considerations, taking into account the generated decision trees and report our results that give important hints for feature selection.

Keywords

Mutual Information Information Gain Tactile Sensor Tactile Image Tactile Processing 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Matthias Schöpfer
    • 1
  • Michael Pardowitz
    • 1
  • Robert Haschke
    • 1
  • Helge Ritter
    • 1
  1. 1.Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Cluster (CITEC)Bielefeld UniversityBielefeldGermany

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