Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot

Abstract

Abstract.A common behavior in animals or human beings is deception. We focus on deceptive behavior in robotics because the appropriate use of deception is beneficial in several domains ranging from the military to a more everyday context. In this research, novel algorithms are developed for the deceptive behavior of a robot, inspired by the observed deceptive behavior of squirrels for cache protection strategies, evaluating the results via simulation studies.

Ant-Inspired Fuzzily Deceptive Robots

“…6), this work is not only the pioneering one to incorporate fuzzy logic concepts into the phenomenon of deception and further the deceptive robotics, but also is obviously an improved version of previous works on the deceptive robotics [5,10] in which deception is fundamentally developed based on a psychological concept. Although mere nature-inspired deception concepts have been investigated in recent literature [14,15,18], here, combining the fuzzy reasoning with ant-inspired heuristics, is the evidence for the novelty in the deception concept for robots and also is an open way to have inspiration from other parts of the great nature. As with [21,22] and regarding the concept of behavioral intelligence in [23], here, we have put a step forward to have an imitation of human behavior.…”

“…An instance is the mobbing behavior of birds which is spotted in [15] that incorporates deceit into the handicap principle [16] using Grafen's Dishonesty Model [17]. Another biologically inspired deceptive behavior is highlighted in [18] advocated by the observed behavior of certain squirrels acting deceptively to protect their food.…”

Single Real Goal, Magnitude-Based Deceptive Path-Planning

“…Deception strategy (presenting misleading information) arose in a path-planning-related experiment carried out by roboticists Shim and Arkin [ 33 ], inspired by the food-hoarding behavior of squirrels. Computerized robotic squirrels visit food caches and, if they believe themselves to be under surveillance, also visit false caches (where there is no food).…”

Improving the Scalability of the Magnitude-Based Deceptive Path-Planning Using Subgoal Graphs

“…Deception strategy (presenting misleading information) arises in a path-planning-related experiment carried out by roboticists Shim and Arkin [29], inspired by the food-hoarding behavior of squirrels. Computerized robotic squirrels visit food caches and, if they believe themselves to be under surveillance, also visit false caches (where there is no food).…”