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Robot-animal interaction

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Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97 (ICANN 1997)

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It is described how autonomous robots can be a powerful tool for verifying biological hypotheses. One can implement a biological hypothesis on a robot, put the robot under same experimental conditions as an animal in biological experiments, and then verify whether the implemented hypothesis holds, e.g. can account for the behaviour observed in the animal. Here, it is shown with the example of cricket phonotaxis. The robot is built with a specific auditory mechanism that is hypothesised to be the basis for cricket phonotaxis. When real male crickets are placed in an arena, the robot will perform phonotaxis as soon as the male crickets start to sing the calling song.

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Wulfram Gerstner Alain Germond Martin Hasler Jean-Daniel Nicoud

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Lund, H.H. (1997). Robot-animal interaction. In: Gerstner, W., Germond, A., Hasler, M., Nicoud, JD. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97. ICANN 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020243

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