RICA: A reliable and image configurable arena for cyborg bumblebee based on CAN bus

Author

Fan Gong ; Nenggan Zheng ; Lei Xue ; Kedi Xu ; Xiaoxiang Zheng

Author_Institution

Qiushi Acad. for Adv. Studies (QAAS), Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

860

Lastpage

863

Abstract

In this paper, we designed a reliable and image configurable flight arena, RICA, for developing cyborg bumblebees. To meet the spatial and temporal requirements of bumblebees, the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus is adopted to interconnect the LED display modules to ensure the reliability and real-time performance of the arena system. Easily-configurable interfaces on a desktop computer implemented by python scripts are provided to transmit the visual patterns to the LED distributor online and configure RICA dynamically. The new arena system will be a power tool to investigate the quantitative relationship between the visual inputs and induced flight behaviors and also will be helpful to the visual-motor research in other related fields.

Keywords

LED displays; biomimetics; controller area networks; medical computing; reliability; LED display modules; LED distributor online; RICA; controller area network bus; cyborg bumblebee; desktop computer; easily-configurable interfaces; interconnect; python scripts; real-time performance; reliability; reliable-image configurable flight arena; visual patterns; visual-motor research; Insects; Light emitting diodes; Reliability engineering; Spatial resolution; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943727

Filename

6943727