Shoaling with Fish: Using Miniature Robotic Agents to Close the Interaction Loop with Groups of Zebrafish Danio rerio

• Main Authors: Bonnet, Frank (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Mondada, Francesco (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 131
• Subjects: Robotics.; Automation.; Biomedical engineering.; Robotics and Automation.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.

Robotic animals are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bio-inspired robotics, biomimetics and animal behavior studies. More specifically, in the case of collective animal behavior research, the robotic device can interact with animals by generating and exploiting signals relev...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• State of the art in fish behavioral studies using robots and robotic-fish design
• The zebrafish Danio rerio as a model animal for animal-robot interaction studies
• FishBot, the fast miniature wheeledmobile robot
• RiBot, the actuated robotic fish lure
• Automated setup to conduct experiments with mixed societies of fish and robots
• CATS, the control and tracking software
• Biomimetic behavior models for controlling a robotic fish
• Application of a fractional factorial design to model the attractiveness of a robotic fish to a shoal of zebrafish
• Using a circular corridor to characterize the attractive cues of lures for a shoal of zebrafish
• Towards mixed societies of fish and robots
• Conclusion.