TY - GEN
T1 - Design and development of a Legged rat robot for studying animal-robot interaction
AU - Laschi, Cecilia
AU - Mazzolai, Barbara
AU - Patanè, Francesco
AU - Mattoli, Virgilio
AU - Dario, Paolo
AU - Ishii, Hiroyuki
AU - Ogura, Motonori
AU - Kurisu, Shunji
AU - Komura, Atsushi
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2006/12/22
Y1 - 2006/12/22
N2 - This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired legged rat robot, as an experimental tool for studying social interaction between rats and robots. The rat robot will be used as a platform to clarify basic factors for a relationship between rats and robots based on animal psychology and behavior. The developed rat robot has 4 legs with 3 DOF (2 active and 1 passive) for each leg. The two front legs are designed to perform simple manipulation tasks like pushing levers and buttons. Using our rat robot, an interaction experiment will be conducted to study the capability of the robotic rat to teach the real rat pushing levers.
AB - This paper presents the design and development of a bio-inspired legged rat robot, as an experimental tool for studying social interaction between rats and robots. The rat robot will be used as a platform to clarify basic factors for a relationship between rats and robots based on animal psychology and behavior. The developed rat robot has 4 legs with 3 DOF (2 active and 1 passive) for each leg. The two front legs are designed to perform simple manipulation tasks like pushing levers and buttons. Using our rat robot, an interaction experiment will be conducted to study the capability of the robotic rat to teach the real rat pushing levers.
KW - Animal-robot interaction
KW - Bioinspired robotics
KW - Biorobotics
KW - Legged robot
KW - Rat robot
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U2 - 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639160
DO - 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639160
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845574354
SN - 1424400406
SN - 9781424400409
T3 - Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006
SP - 631
EP - 636
BT - Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006
T2 - 1st IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006
Y2 - 20 February 2006 through 22 February 2006
ER -