Animal-Robot Interaction
Alexey Gribovskiy,
Francesco Mondada
Introduction
The goal of this project is to design a mixed society of chickens and robots and to control
the dynamics of this society. This project is a continuation of the European project Leurre (see link below).
Description
The idea of this project is to study the dynamics of animal collective behavior using mobile robots as a powerful
and flexible decoy, able to communicate with animals and reproduce socially relevant animal behaviors. This approach
brings us to the creation of mixed colonies of robots and animals.
The first project aiming in building animal-robot mixed societies was a project Leurre. During this project a mixed society
of cockroaches and robots accepted as members of the animal society were designed and controlled.
Now we are interested in testing and refining of a general methodology of handling animal-robot societies developed in the Leurre project
on more complex social animals - chickens. The study of a chickens-robots group will help to understand the role of social
relations and leadership in the animal groups' organization. Moreover the possibility to control parameters of animal's behaviors
with the help of robotic agents can be used in farming as a tool to improve breeding conditions and animal welfare. In addition,
we are interested to give new models to the field of collective robotics.
Our partner in this project is the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems (CENOLI) of the Department of Social Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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