The Visual Neuroscience of Robotic Grasping: Achieving Sensorimotor Skills through Dorsal-Ventral Stream Integration

This book presents interdisciplinary research that pursues the mutual enrichment of neuroscience and robotics. Building on experimental work, and on the wealth of literature regarding the two cortical pathways of visual processing — the dorsal and ventral streams — we define and implement, computationally and on a real robot, a functional model of the brain areas involved in vision—based grasping actions.
Grasping in robotics is largely an unsolved problem, and we show how the bio—inspired...