researchtalks vol.6 - control groups of animals with robotic lures
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Control of animal groups with robotic lures
Sempo Grégory Unit of Social Ecology, ULB
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The use of lures is very old in the history of interactions between humans and animals.
These lures are often the result of a tradition, obtained by “trials and errors”. Most of the time, previous studies of animal behavior (isolated or in groups) leading to formal models are lacking. Moreover, these lures do not interact together and do not have any adaptive capability.
Lures
Lures At the individual level, behavioral sciences have shown that:
animal interactions could be rather “simple” signals; it is possible to interact with animals by making specifically designed artifacts.
Michelsen et al. (BES, 1992) Patricelli et al. (Nature, 2002)
No interaction
The artificial agent is passive (does not respond to the animal) →the loop is not closed
The loop is not closed
ROBOFISH (J. Krauze, BES 2010) FEMBOT GROUSE (G. Patricielli, behav. Ecol 2010)
Robotic squirrel (M.A. Barbour, Proc Royal Soc B 2012)
Lures At the individual level, behavioral sciences have shown that:
animal interactions could be rather “simple” signals; it is possible to interact with animals by making specifically designed artifacts.
Michelsen et al. (BES, 1992)
Patricelli et al. (Nature, 2002)
Vaughan (SAB, 1998) No interaction
Interaction Not a « congener »
Review: Knight, J. Nature (2005).
Ishii, Robotica 2013
Cyborgs
REMOTE CONTROLLED RAT (S. Talwar, Nature 2002)
ROBOT BEETLE (Maharbiz, DARPA)
ROBOT ROACH (Bozkurt, IEEE 2012)
develop mixed-societies composed of social animals and artificial agents (robots) that interact and share collective decision. Case study: shelter selection by cockroaches and robots
Mixed societies (natural and artificial agents)
Implementation : external view
12 IR Proximity Sensors ⇒ Cockroach detection ⇒ Wall detection ⇒ Robot detection
2 Photodiodes ⇒ Shelter detection
Linear Camera ⇒ Cockroach detection
(Correll N. et al., 2006)
Swistrack software RFID
Tracking tool: analysis of individual behaviour
Project leader: D. Fresneau
Collective choices in mixed societies
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(Halloy et al. 2007, Science)
Experimental demonstration (different shelters)
12 cockroaches & 4 robots
Collective selection of the light shelter
Light Dark
Summary
Existence of shared and controlled collective choice between machines
and animals
Implementation of active chemical communication between robots & animals
Both machines insects are able, independently of each other, to perform such collective decision.
Partners
•Unit of Social Ecology (USE) •International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry •Autonomous Systems Laboratory (ASL1) •Ethologie-Evolution-Ecologie (EVE) •Swarm-intelligent Systems Group (SWIS) •Laboratoire d'Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée (LEEC)
•FNRS
©Philippe PLAILLY / EURELIOS