Paper:
Behavior Change of Crickets in a Robot-Mixed Society
Rodrigo da Silva Guerra*1, Hitoshi Aonuma*2, Koh Hosoda*1, *3,
and Minoru Asada*1, *4
*1JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project
*2Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University
*3Department of Multimedia Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science, Osaka University
*4Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
This paper presents a study on cricket behavior using an interdisciplinary robot/insect mixed society setup. Field crickets of the species Gryllus bimaculatus were allowed to interact with micro-robots equipped with decoys. This allows the stimulation of insect behaviors that are usually difficult to bring out evoke insects alone, allowing consistent behavioral research. We performed a set of experiments focused on the comparative study of the behavior of dominant and subordinate male crickets after a dominance dispute is settled. From these experiments we were able to collect evidence on the differences between subordinate and dominant behavior towards different decoys.
and Minoru Asada, “Behavior Change of Crickets in a Robot-Mixed Society,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.22, No.4, pp. 526-531, 2010.
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