Martin Pearson's Outputs (50)

Adaptive cancelation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot (2010)
Journal Article

Sensory signals are often caused by ones own active movements. This raises a problem of discriminating between self-generated sensory signals and signals generated by the external world. Such discrimination is of general importance for robotic system... Read More about Adaptive cancelation of self-generated sensory signals in a whisking robot.

SCRATCHbot: Active tactile sensing in a whiskered mobile robot (2010)
Book Chapter

Towards biomimetic vibrissal tactile sensing for robot exploration, navigation, and object recognition in hazardous environments (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation (2010)
Journal Article

Biological computational modellers are becoming increasingly interested in building large, eclectic models, including components on many different computational substrates, both biological and non-biological. At the same time, the rise of the philoso... Read More about BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation.

Whisking with robots: From rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active touch (2009)
Journal Article

This article summarizes some of the key features of the rat vibrissal system, including the actively controlled sweeping movements of the vibrissae known as whisking, and reviews the past and ongoing research aimed at replicating some of this functio... Read More about Whisking with robots: From rat vibrissae to biomimetic technology for active touch.

Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot (2009)
Journal Article

Actuated artificial whiskers modeled on rat macrovibrissae can provide effective tactile sensor systems for autonomous robots. This article focuses on texture classification using artificial whiskers and addresses a limitation of previous studies, na... Read More about Contact type dependency of texture classification in a whiskered mobile robot.

Computational neuroethological modelling of the rat facial whiskers (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whiskerbot: A robotic active touch system modeled on the rat whisker sensory system (2007)
Journal Article

The Whiskerbot project is a collaborative project between robotics engineers, computational neuroscientists and ethologists, aiming to build a biologically inspired robotic implementation of the rodent whisker sensory system. The morphology and mech... Read More about Whiskerbot: A robotic active touch system modeled on the rat whisker sensory system.

Implementing spiking neural networks for real-time signal-processing and control applications: A model-validated FPGA approach (2007)
Journal Article

In this paper, we present two versions of a hardware processing architecture for modeling large networks of leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons; the second version provides performance enhancing features relative to the first. Both versions of the... Read More about Implementing spiking neural networks for real-time signal-processing and control applications: A model-validated FPGA approach.

Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus complex (2004)
Journal Article

In whiskered animals, activity is evoked in the primary sensory afferent cells (trigeminal nerve) by mechanical stimulation of the whiskers. In some cell populations this activity is correlated well with continuous stimulus parameters such as whisker... Read More about Empirically inspired simulated electro-mechanical model of the rat mystacial follicle-sinus complex.