A New Approach to Biomimetic Robots for Odor Source Localization

Author

Liang, Liang ; Li, Jianping ; Jia, Jian ; Gao, Xiaoguang

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

840

Lastpage

845

Abstract

Tracking odor to its source is the survival instinct of many animals gained in evolution, and that capability can be transferred to robotics. This paper describes a new and practical investigation of biomimetic robots for odor source localization. An embedded mobile robot platform was developed to process multi-tasks. A new odor sensing unit with a special data fusion algorithm was designed to enable fast and realtime sensing. Inspired by animals´ behaviour and based on odor predictions, a novel algorithm was designed to locate an odor source. Results of indoor experiments show that the robot can find a static odor source and follow a moving odor source.

Keywords

biomimetics; electronic noses; mobile robots; sensor fusion; biomimetic robots; data fusion algorithm; embedded mobile robot platform; odor sensing unit; odor source localization; Algorithm design and analysis; Animals; Biomimetics; Gas detectors; Hidden Markov models; Humans; Mobile robots; Predictive models; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Biomimetic Robot; Embedded System; Odor Source Localization; Sensor Data Fusion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2006. ROBIO '06. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0570-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0571-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2006.340323

Filename

4141975