Tactile Recognition and Localization Using Object Models: The Case of Polyhedra on a Plane
This paper discusses how data from multiple tactile sensors may be used to identify and locate one object, from among a set of known objects. We use only local information from sensors: (1) the position of contact points, and (2) ranges of surface normals at the contact points. The recognition...
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Language: | en_US |
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2004
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6378 |
Summary: | This paper discusses how data from multiple tactile sensors may be used to identify and locate one object, from among a set of known objects. We use only local information from sensors: (1) the position of contact points, and (2) ranges of surface normals at the contact points. The recognition and localization process is structured as the development and pruning of a tree of consistent hypotheses about pairings between contact points and object surfaces. In this paper, we deal with polyhedral objects constrained to lie on a known plane, i.e., having three degrees of positioning freedom relative to the sensors. |
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