Reference - Detail
| RRC ID | 56909 |
|---|---|
| Author | Ando N, Emoto S, Kanzaki R. |
| Title | Insect-controlled Robot: A Mobile Robot Platform to Evaluate the Odor-tracking Capability of an Insect. |
| Journal | J Vis Exp |
| Abstract |
Robotic odor source localization has been a challenging area and one to which biological knowledge has been expected to contribute, as finding odor sources is an essential task for organism survival. Insects are well-studied organisms with regard to odor tracking, and their behavioral strategies have been applied to mobile robots for evaluation. This "bottom-up" approach is a fundamental way to develop biomimetic robots; however, the biological analyses and the modeling of behavioral mechanisms are still ongoing. Therefore, it is still unknown how such a biological system actually works as the controller of a robotic platform. To answer this question, we have developed an insect-controlled robot in which a male adult silkmoth (Bombyx mori) drives a robot car in response to odor stimuli; this can be regarded as a prototype of a future insect-mimetic robot. In the cockpit of the robot, a tethered silkmoth walked on an air-supported ball and an optical sensor measured the ball rotations. These rotations were translated into the movement of the two-wheeled robot. The advantage of this "hybrid" approach is that experimenters can manipulate any parameter of the robot, which enables the evaluation of the odor-tracking capability of insects and provides useful suggestions for robotic odor-tracking. Furthermore, these manipulations are non-invasive ways to alter the sensory-motor relationship of a pilot insect and will be a useful technique for understanding adaptive behaviors. |
| Volume | (118) |
| Published | 2016-12-19 |
| DOI | 10.3791/54802 |
| PMID | 28060258 |
| PMC | PMC5226434 |
| MeSH | Animals Biomimetics* Bombyx / physiology* Chemotaxis / physiology* Male Movement Odorants / analysis Robotics* Smell / physiology |
| IF | 1.108 |
| Times Cited | 1 |
| Altmetric score |
オルトメトリクス指標項目
|
| The most frequently cited source | News |
| Total number of mentions | 30 |
| Altmetric score changes over past 6months | 0.0 |
| Resource | |
| Silkworms | |