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Behavioral Models of the Praying Mantis as a Basis for Robotic Behavior
Behavioral Models of the Praying Mantis as a Basis for Robotic Behavior
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Ali, Khaled Subhi
Arkin, Ronald C.
Cervantes-Pérez, Francisco
Weitzenfeld, Alfredo
Arkin, Ronald C.
Cervantes-Pérez, Francisco
Weitzenfeld, Alfredo
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Abstract
Formal models of animal sensorimotor behavior can provide effective methods
for generating robotic intelligence. In this article we describe how schema-theoretic
models of the praying mantis derived from behavioral and neuroscientific data can
be implemented on a hexapod robot equipped with a real-time color vision system.
This implementation incorporates a wide range of behaviors, including obstacle
avoidance, prey acquisition, predator avoidance, mating, and chantlitaxia behaviors
that can provide guidance to neuroscientists, ethologists, and roboticists alike. The
goals of this study are threefold: to provide an understanding and means by which
fielded robotic systems are not competing with other agents that are more effective
at their designated task; to permit them to be successful competitors within the
ecological system and capable of displacing less efficient agents; and that they are
ecologically sensitive so that agent-environment dynamics are well-modeled and as
predictable as possible whenever new robotic technology is introduced.
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1999
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