@conference {151, title = {Learning peripersonal space representation through artificial skin for avoidance and reaching with whole body surface}, booktitle = {Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on}, year = {2015}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, address = {Hamburg}, abstract = {

Abstract{\textemdash}With robots leaving factory environments and entering less controlled domains,\ 
possibly sharing living space with humans, safety needs to be guaranteed. To this end,\ 
some form of awareness of their body surface and the space surrounding it is desirable. In\ 
this work, we present a unique method that lets a robot learn a distributed representation of\ 
space around its body (or peripersonal space) by exploiting a whole-body artificial skin and\ 
through physical contact with the environment. Every taxel (tactile element) has a visual\ ...

}, author = {Alessandro Roncone and Matej Hoffmann and Ugo Pattacini and Giorgio Metta} }