Insect inspired robots

John Lim; Chris McCarthy; David Shaw; Luke Cole; Nick Barnes

Insect inspired robots

John Lim^*, Chris McCarthy, David Shaw, Luke Cole, Nick Barnes

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Abstract

Insect behaviour has been a rich source of inspiration for the field of robotics as the perception and navigation problems encountered by autonomous robots are faced also by insects. In this paper, we introduce a research platform, the Insectbot, that was built as a testbed for new biologically-inspired, vision-based algorithms and systems. The Insectbot is a groundbased robot but it is capable of simulating conditions of free flight. It is a robust testbed for flight navigation algorithms that offers advantages over other platforms such as helicopters, blimps and other air vehicles. We present the navigational behaviours currently implemented on this robot. Major subsytems include the well-known bee-inspired, corridor-centring behaviour, a flow-based docking algorithm and feature detection algorithms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2006
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2006 - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 6 Dec 2006 → 8 Dec 2006

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2006

Conference

Conference	2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2006
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Period	6/12/06 → 8/12/06

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