Title :
A survey of biologically inspired chemical plume tracking strategies for single robot in 2-D turbulence dominated flow environments
Author :
Zhang, Siqi ; Xu, Demin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Marine Eng., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
A survey of biologically inspired chemical plume tracking strategies for single robot is presented. We focus on the 2-D turbulence dominated airflow environments. Olfactory-based mechanisms have been hypothesized for biological behaviors including foraging, mate-seeking, homing, and host-seeking. Server robots with such chemical plume tracking feats would have applicability in many dangerous or toxic searching tasks. In this paper, we classify the biologically inspired chemical plume tracking strategies for single robot in 2-D turbulence dominated flow environments into four types, namely chemotaxis-based, anemotaxis-based, infotaxis-based, and vision fusion-based. The advantages and disadvantages of the typical algorithms in each strategy are reviewed in detail. In final, further research directions in this area are presented.
Keywords :
cell motility; gas sensors; robot vision; tracking; turbulence; 2-D turbulence dominated air flow environment; anemotaxis based flow environment; biological behavior; biologically inspired chemical plume tracking strategies; chemotaxis based flow environment; foraging; homing; host seeking; infotaxis based flow environment; mate seeking; olfactory based mechanism; server robots; single robot; toxic searching task; vision fusion based flow environment; Biology; Chemicals; Classification algorithms; Information entropy; Robot sensing systems; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
System Integration (SII), 2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1523-5
DOI :
10.1109/SII.2011.6147472