Overview
- Presents novel robotized tools that can integrate shoals of fish in order to study their collective behaviors
- Demonstrates the use of miniature robotic agents to close the interaction loop with groups of zebrafish Danio rerio
- This work is the co-winner of the George Girault PhD Award of the European Robotics Forum
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 131)
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About this book
Robotic animals are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bio-inspired robotics, biomimetics and animal behavior studies. More specifically, in the case of collective animal behavior research, the robotic device can interact with animals by generating and exploiting signals relevant for social behavior. Once perceived by the animal society as conspecific, these robots can become powerful tools to study the animal behaviors, as they can at the same time monitor the changes in behavior and influence the collective choices of the animal society.
In this book, we present novel robotized tools that can integrate shoals of fish in order to study their collective behaviors. We used the current state of the art on the zebrafish social behavior to define the specifications of the robots, and we performed stimuli analysis to improve their developments. Bio-inspired controllers were designed based on data extracted from experiments with zebrafish for the robots to mimic the zebrafish locomotion underwater.
Experiments involving mixed groups of fish and robots qualified the robotic system to be integrated among a zebrafish shoal and to be able to influence the collective decisions of the fish. These results are very promising for the field of animal-robot interaction studies, as we showed the effect of the robots in long-duration experiments and repetitively, with the same order of response from the animals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shoaling with Fish: Using Miniature Robotic Agents to Close the Interaction Loop with Groups of Zebrafish Danio rerio
Authors: Frank Bonnet, Francesco Mondada
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16781-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16780-6Published: 13 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16783-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16781-3Published: 30 May 2019
Series ISSN: 1610-7438
Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 169
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Robotics