Trajectory Recording and Analysis System for Cockroach Robot

Abstract

In this study, We design a trajectory recording and analysis system to record and analysis the changes in the movement behavior of the cockroach robot after stimulation. The external hardware of this system is an infrared touchpad as the experimental platform for the cockroach robot to crawl freely, and the infrared matrices densely distributed in the X and Y directions of the infrared touchpad are used to detect and locate the position of the cockroach robot. The cockroach robot’s movement trajectory is displayed visually through the projector’s interface projection on the infrared touchpad. The system software consists of three main parts: the electrical signal parameter setting module, the movement trajectory recording module, and the data analysis module. The electrical signal parameter setting module sets the stimulation parameters and configures the corresponding serial port to independently stimulate the left and right antenna and cercus of the cockroach; the trajectory recording module is used to record the trajectory of the cockroach robot through the coordinate positioning method. The data analysis module explores the change of motion behavior of the cockroach robot with time after receiving the stimulus by using the stage analysis method, and explores the change of motion of the cockroach robot with different voltage stimulus by using the module analysis method. The system is tested in experiments and the results demonstrated its applicability to the recording and analysis of the cockroach robot’s trajectories.