Animal-Robot Interaction

Alexey Gribovskiy, Francesco Mondada

Introduction

The goal of this project is to develop a mobile robot that can be socially integrated into a group of animals and to use this robot to study collective animal behavior. We aim to build a multipurpose robot that will allow ethologists to study sophisticated phenomena thanks to a wide range of sensors and sufficient computational power. As a model animal, we selected the domestic chicken.

Our partner in this project is the Unit of Social Ecology at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium.

Publications

Related Links

• leurre.ulb.ac.be: web site of the Leurre project.
• http://www.ulb.ac.be/cenoliw3: web site of CENOLI.