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Importance of real-world properties in chasing task: simulation and analysis of dragonfly’s behavior

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Recently, robots that operate in complex real environments, such as rescue robots and nursing-care robots, have been proposed and developed. However, controlling a robot in a complex environment remains very difficult, and therefore, the study of autonomous control of a robot is one of the most important topics in robotics. In this study, we modeled a dragonfly’s behavior and conducted dynamic simulations of chasing behavior. To validate the role of real-world properties, we analyzed the simulation results and showed that by using real-world properties, the computational cost of the autonomous controller can be reduced considerably and interception behavior can be realized by a simple controller without estimating the movement of the prey.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, 184-8584, Japan

    Kazuyuki Ito & Naoyuki Sakuraba

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Correspondence to Naoyuki Sakuraba.

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This work was presented in part at the 19th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Oita, January 22–24, 2014.

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Ito, K., Sakuraba, N. Importance of real-world properties in chasing task: simulation and analysis of dragonfly’s behavior. Artif Life Robotics 19, 370–374 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-014-0176-7

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