Modeling of playing behavior of animals using robot technologies

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K00366
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Ishii Hiroyuki 早稲田大学, 理工学術院総合研究所(理工学研究所), 准教授(任期付) (10398927)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TAKANISHI Atsuo 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (50179462)
• Research Collaborator: Shi Qing 北京理工大学, 准教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ロボット工学 / インタラクション / 機械学習

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A small mobile robot, which interacted with a rat, were developed. A system for measuring behavior of the rat and controlling that of the robot according to the measurement were also developed. A behavior generation algorithm for the robot, which enabled it to obtain behavior patterns to "play" with a rat by machine learning, was developed.
An experiment to confirm validity of proposed method was then conducted. In the experiment, the robot obtained behavior pattern to play with a rat, through interactions with the rat. The robot finally succeeded to obtain optimal behavior pattern to play with the rat.

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