A review on animal–robot interaction: from bio-hybrid organisms to mixed societies

Romano, Donato; Donati, Elisa; Benelli, Giovanni; Stefanini, Cesare

doi:10.1007/s00422-018-0787-5

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“…Eliciting a reliable chase response, motivated by territorial defence rather than predation would allow more justified and reliable inferences as to the spatial extent of territory. A valuable next step would be to develop and explore the use of different artificial stimuli, a process to which recent experimental work could provide valuable input, for instance by using various forms of replica or robot model and identifying the most appropriate cues (Romano, Donati, Benelli, & Stefanini, ). This would not necessarily preclude the use of the two methods in tandem (video survey and territorial survey), but adjustments to the towed apparatus would be required if a physical dummy or robot was used.…”

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Laser chasing behaviour of wild fishes exploited as a tool to compare space use between size, sex and species

Davies

Sheehan

2019

J Appl Ichthyol

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The spatial extent of animal movement is a key consideration when designing conservation measures, such as marine protected areas. Methods to assess territory size in the marine environment, however, are labour intensive and/or expensive. Here, we explore a novel method to investigate the spatial ecology of territorial fishes by examining their reactions to an artificial light stimulus. During benthic towed video surveys conducted in Lyme Bay, southwest England, several species of wrasse (Labridae) have frequently been observed pursuing a laser projected onto the seabed. While the motivation behind ‘laser‐chasing’ is unclear, we quantified the spatial aspects of this behaviour by comparing chase distance and chase likelihood between and within species, to determine the potential utility of this method for investigating space use and aggression in wild fishes. Cuckoo wrasse (Labrus mixtus) were significantly more likely to display agonistic behaviour towards the laser than Goldsinny wrasse (Ctenolabrus rupestris). Goldsinny wrasse displayed a positive relationship between total length and chase‐distance, but not Cuckoo wrasse. The observed species differences may relate to behavioural factors affecting the motivation behind ‘laser‐chasing’, which is discussed. Chases by the cuckoo wrasse were significantly longer than those by Goldsinny wrasse, and these chase distances were used to estimate theoretical territory sizes for each species. To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the spatial aspects of the reactions to an artificial stimulus by wild fishes. The potential to develop the method to directly investigate aspects of territoriality and aggression in wild fishes is discussed, including necessary further refinements and testing. Wild wrasses are increasingly exploited in Europe to provide cleaner fish for salmonid aquaculture, and we encourage the development of methods to inform spatial conservation measures for these ubiquitous and iconic species.

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Laser chasing behaviour of wild fishes exploited as a tool to compare space use between size, sex and species

Davies

Sheehan

2019

J Appl Ichthyol

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“…Brain computer interface (BCI) utilizes brain activity to communicate with external devices directly [1][2][3]. In the past few decades, both invasive BCI and noninvasive BCI received much attention from researchers.…”

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Motor Imagery Based Continuous Teleoperation Robot Control with Tactile Feedback

Bao-guo

et al. 2020

Electronics

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Brain computer interface (BCI) adopts human brain signals to control external devices directly without using normal neural pathway. Recent study has explored many applications, such as controlling a teleoperation robot by electroencephalography (EEG) signals. However, utilizing the motor imagery EEG-based BCI to perform teleoperation for reach and grasp task still has many difficulties, especially in continuous multidimensional control of robot and tactile feedback. In this research, a motor imagery EEG-based continuous teleoperation robot control system with tactile feedback was proposed. Firstly, mental imagination of different hand movements was translated into continuous command to control the remote robotic arm to reach the hover area of the target through a wireless local area network (LAN). Then, the robotic arm automatically completed the task of grasping the target. Meanwhile, the tactile information of remote robotic gripper was detected and converted to the feedback command. Finally, the vibrotactile stimulus was supplied to users to improve their telepresence. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of using the motor imagery EEG acquired by wireless portable equipment to realize the continuous teleoperation robot control system to finish the reach and grasp task. The average two-dimensional continuous control success rates for online Task 1 and Task 2 of the six subjects were 78.0% ± 6.1% and 66.2% ± 6.0%, respectively. Furthermore, compared with the traditional EEG triggered robot control using the predefined trajectory, the continuous fully two-dimensional control can not only improve the teleoperation robot system’s efficiency but also give the subject a more natural control which is critical to human–machine interaction (HMI). In addition, vibrotactile stimulus can improve the operator’s telepresence and task performance.

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“…Recent advances in the field of robotics now make it possible to combine the strengths of agent-based models and behavioural experiments, with robotic individuals behaving like realistic-looking conspecifics and interacting naturally with live animals [16][17][18]. Here we present results from experiments using live guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that were swimming with an interactive biomimetic fish-like robot ('robofish') to examine the role of animal's individual movement speed on collective behavioural patterns.…”

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Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish

Jolles

Weimar

Landgraf

et al. 2020

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Understanding the emergence of collective behaviour has long been a key research focus in the natural sciences. Besides the fundamental role of social interaction rules, a combination of theoretical and empirical work indicates individual speed may be a key process that drives the collective behaviour of animal groups. Socially-induced changes in speed by interacting animals make it difficult to isolate the effects of individual speed on group-level behaviours.Here we tackled this issue by pairing guppies with a biomimetic robot. We used a closed-loop tracking and feedback system to let a robotic fish naturally interact with a live partner in real time, and programmed it to strongly copy and follow its partner's movements while lacking any preferred movement speed or directionality of its own. We show that individual differences in guppies' movement speed were highly repeatable and shaped key collective patterns: higher individual speeds resulted in stronger leadership, lower cohesion, higher alignment, and better temporal coordination in the pairs. By combining the strengths of individual-based models and observational work with state-of-the-art robotics, we provide novel evidence that individual speed is a key, fundamental process in the emergence of collective behaviour.

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A review on animal–robot interaction: from bio-hybrid organisms to mixed societies

Cited by 156 publications

References 188 publications

Laser chasing behaviour of wild fishes exploited as a tool to compare space use between size, sex and species

Laser chasing behaviour of wild fishes exploited as a tool to compare space use between size, sex and species

Motor Imagery Based Continuous Teleoperation Robot Control with Tactile Feedback

Group-level patterns emerge from individual speed as revealed by an extremely social robotic fish

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