Bio-insect and artificial robots interaction: A dragging mechanism and experimental results

In this paper, we introduce the experimental test platform for bio-insect and artificial robot interaction based on distributed systems (BRIDS). The main architecture of the BRIDS was reported in and simulation results were introduced. One of the most challenging problems of BRIDS is that a bio-insect does not usually react to actuation. When we try to stimulate the bio-insect for our purpose, its reaction is not that straightforward. From various trials-and-errors, we finally found actuation mechanism for an interaction between the bio-insect and the artificial robot. This paper reports what we have done to actuate a bio-insect and experimental test results.