Behavior Change of Crickets in a Robot-Mixed Society

Rodrigo da Silva Guerra; Hitoshi Aonuma; Koh Hosoda; Minoru Asada

doi:10.20965/jrm.2010.p0526

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JRM Vol.22 No.4 pp. 526-531

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2010.p0526

(2010)

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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

Received:

January 12, 2010

Accepted:

April 5, 2010

Published:

August 20, 2010

Keywords:

mixed-society, cricket, agonistic behaviour

Abstract

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.

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R. da Guerra, H. Aonuma, K. Hosoda, and M. 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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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

Rodrigo da Silva Guerra^1, Hitoshi Aonuma^2, Koh Hosoda^{1, 3},
and Minoru Asada^{1, 4}