Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360
Ecological Niche Fitting:
Mapping animal behavioral models to robot behavioral architectures
Ronald C.
Arkin
College of Computing, Georgia Tech
Atlanta, U.S.A.
In a joint research project with neuroscientists at ITAM in Mexico
City, we seek to gain an understanding and means by which fielded
robotic systems can draw upon behavioral models of how biological
agents interact with their environment. This can yield methods for
minimizing a robot's competition with other agents that are more
effective at their designated task, and to making robots
successful competitors within their ecological system, capable
of ultimately displacing less efficient agents. Our studies to date
have focused on neuroscientifically-derived schema models of the
praying mantis that provide a basis for a schema-based behavioral
controller implemented both in simulation and on a robot hexapod.
Anke Weinberger, 1997-11-27