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Through interactions with live animals biomimetic robots can be used to analyze social behaviors. We have developed a robotic fish enabling us to examine complex interactions in fish shoals. The system uses small wheeled robots under a water tank. The robots are coupled to a fish replica inside the tank using neodymium magnets. The fish integrate a battery pack and two infrared LEDs that are used to track the replicas in the tank. Here, we describe the procedure to build a fish replica, review the implementation details of our hardware and software and compare it to a previous plotter-based system.
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Landgraf, T., Akkad, R., Nguyen, H., Clément, R.O., Krause, J., Rojas, R. (2012). A Multi-agent Platform for Biomimetic Fish. In: Prescott, T.J., Lepora, N.F., Mura, A., Verschure, P.F.M.J. (eds) Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_44
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