InsBot: design of an autonomous mini mobile robot able to interact with cockroaches

Author

Colot, Alexandre ; Caprari, Gilles ; Siegwart, Roland

Author_Institution

Autonomous Syst. Lab, Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

26 April-1 May 2004

Firstpage

2418

Abstract

This paper presents general ideas on design and implementation of robots to be used together with groups of animals. This work is part of the European project LEURRE aiming to study, model and control mixed societies of animals and robots. After a short presentation of the general project, the implications on the special requirements are discussed. The design process of the robot are described leading to the implementation of the autonomous mini robot called InsBot. This is very compact (19×30×41 mm³), has many sensors (12 IR proximity, linear camera and temperature) and is able to interact with gregarious cockroaches.

Keywords

control engineering computing; mobile robots; InsBot; LEURRE project; autonomous mini mobile robot; cockroaches; mixed animal-robot societies; Agriculture; Animals; Infrared sensors; Mobile robots; Paper technology; Process design; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Temperature sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8232-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1307423

Filename

1307423