The Embodiment of Cockroach Aggregation Behavior in a Group of Micro-robots
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in Artificial Life
- Vol. 14 (4), 387-408
- https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.2008.14.4.14400
Abstract
We report the faithful reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of the biological model provided by Jeanson et al. in Alice robots, and we compare the behaviors of the cockroaches and the robots using the same experimental and analytical methodology. We show that the aggregation behavior of the German cockroach was successfully transferred to the Alice robot despite strong differences between robots and animals at the perceptual, actuatorial, and computational levels. This article highlights some of the major constraints one may encounter during such a work and proposes general principles to ensure that the behavioral model is accurately transferred to the artificial agents.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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