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Active perception refers to a theoretical approach to the study of perception grounded on the idea that perceiving is a way of acting, rather than a process whereby the brain constructs an internal representation of the world. In this paper, we complement previous studies by illustrating the operational principles of an active categorisation process in which a neuro-controlled anthropomorphic robotic arm, equipped with coarse-grained tactile sensors, is required to perceptually categorise spherical and ellipsoid objects.
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Tuci, E., Massera, G., Nolfi, S. (2011). On the Dynamics of Active Categorisation of Different Objects Shape through Tactile Sensors. In: Kampis, G., Karsai, I., Szathmáry, E. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. Darwin Meets von Neumann. ECAL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5777. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21283-3_16
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