A Tethered system to investigate the behavioral changes of the silk moth for chemical plume tracing

Author

Jouh Yeong Chew ; Kishi, Kotaro ; Kinowaki, Yohei ; Minegishi, Ryo ; Kurabayashi, Daisuke

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Control Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 30 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

38

Abstract

We developed a Tethered system which measures the locomotion of the silk moth (Bombyx Mori) upon stimulation. The Bombykol, which is the synthetic pheromone, is used as the stimuli and we investigate the changes in chemical plume tracing (CPT) behavior of the moth. We consider the importance of this study for biomimetic of its CPT behavior. The locomotion observations are classified into elemental motions and used to estimate the stimuli time. The estimation accuracy is then used for CPT behavior analysis. Preliminary results show good estimation accuracy and suggest a declining CPT behavior in the time domain.

Keywords

biochemistry; biological techniques; biomechanics; biomimetics; chemioception; zoology; Bombykol; CPT behavior analysis; behavioral changes; biomimetics; chemical plume tracing behavior; elemental motions; estimation accuracy; locomotion observation; silk moth locomotion; stimuli time; synthetic pheromone; tethered system; time domain; Chemical plume tracing; behavior analysis; biomimetic; silk moth;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1195-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URAI.2013.6677466

Filename

6677466