Title :
Study of a small mobile robot that uses living insect antennae as pheromone sensors
Author :
Nagasawa, Sumito ; Kanzaki, Ryohei ; Shimoyama, Isao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mechano-Inf., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We have developed a pheromone-tracing robot, PheGMot-III, which is endowed with the silkworm moth´s antennae as pheromone sensors. In order to maximize the use of the antennae, the robot´s size was scaled down to the insect´s size and workspace. By comparing the robot´s behavior to that of the silkworm moth, we were able to improve the behavior release models implemented in PheGMot-III. We confirm the performance of the pheromone sensor and discuss some behavior release models
Keywords :
chemical sensors; mobile robots; neural nets; PheGMot-III; behavior release models; living insect antennae; pheromone sensors; pheromone-tracing robot; silkworm moth; small mobile robot; Biology; Biosensors; Insects; Intelligent sensors; Legged locomotion; Mobile antennas; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Uniform resource locators;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1999. IROS '99. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyongju
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5184-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1999.813062
