Interaction between creature and robot: development of an experiment system for rat and rat robot interaction

Author

Takanishi, Atsuo ; Aoki, Toyohiro ; Ito, Munehisa ; Ohkawa, Yasuo ; Yamaguchi, Jin´ichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

13-17 Oct 1998

Firstpage

1975

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a trial to realize interaction between creatures and robots. As the first step, rats were selected as an experimental target as a simplified form of interaction between human and humanoid robots. A rat robot was developed. Infrared transmitter, similar outlook of rat´s figure and size, front-wheel steering and rear-wheel driving mechanism were equipped to the robot as the main features of the robot. An experiment system was developed to enable interaction between the rat robot and rats. The experiment system is equipped with a color CCD camera which captures and processes images of the rat and the rat robot in real-time. Behavioral experiments were performed with the system. As a result, it was confirmed that behaviors of the rat robot influence the rat´s behaviors

Keywords

CCD image sensors; behavioural sciences computing; robot vision; robots; color CCD camera; front-wheel steering; humanoid robots; infrared transmitter; rat robot interaction; real-time image processing; rear-wheel driving mechanism; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Color; Humanoid robots; Humans; Rats; Real time systems; Robot vision systems; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4465-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1998.724896

Filename

724896