NDLI: Towards mixed societies of chickens and robots

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Author	Gribovskiy, A. Halloy, J. Deneubourg, J.-L. Bleuler, H. Mondada, F.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Robotic Systems Laboratory 1, School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Gribovskiy, A.; Bleuler, H.; Mondada, F.) \|\| Unit of Social Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Halloy, J.; Deneubourg, J.-L.)
Abstract	To design, to study, and to control mixed animals-robots societies is a challenging field of scientific exploration that can bring new frameworks to study individual and collective behaviors in animal and mixed robot-animal societies. In the Chicken Robot project we aim at developing a mobile robot, able to collaborate with a group of chicks and to control certain group behaviors. The first research step is to build formal models of relevant animal behaviors by performing ethological experiments. Hence, one of the principal tasks is to design a setup equipped with appropriate monitoring tools. In this paper, we present a toolset for running chick-robot experiments and analyzing results. It includes an autonomous PoulBot robot and an experimental setup, able to autonomously record experimental video and audio data, to detect displacements of chicks and robots, to detect their calling activity and to provide robots with these data. We also present a visual data analysis system to extract behavioral features of individual chicks using the variational Bayesian Gaussian mixture model classification with a particle filters based prediction of future positions of chicks. We show how these tools are currently used to carry out chick-robot experiments, to collect behavioral data and to extract animal behavioral features that allow us to build behavioral models bound to be implemented in the robot.
Starting Page	4722
Ending Page	4728
File Size	2215489
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424466740
ISSN	21530866
e-ISBN	9781424466764
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2010.5649542
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-10-18
Publisher Place	Taiwan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robot sensing systems Animals Robot kinematics Image color analysis Collision avoidance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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