Visio-tactile binding through double-touching by a robot with an anthropomorphic tactile sensor

Abstract

Binding is one of the most fundamental cognitive functions, how to find the correspondence of sensations between different modalities. It is still unclear how to bind different sensor modalities such as vision and touch. Without a priori knowledge on its sensing structure it is a formidable issue for a robot even to match the foci of attention in different modalities since the sensory data from different sensors are not always caused from the same physical phenomenon. In this study, previous method to make a robot capable of quantizing touch sensors by itself was extended