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A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees
In this paper, we present a novel robotic system developed for researching collective social mechanisms in a biohybrid society of robots and honeybees. The potential for distributed coordination, as observed in nature in many different animal species, has caused an increased interest in collective b...
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2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28792955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181977 |
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author | Griparić, Karlo Haus, Tomislav Miklić, Damjan Polić, Marsela Bogdan, Stjepan |
author_facet | Griparić, Karlo Haus, Tomislav Miklić, Damjan Polić, Marsela Bogdan, Stjepan |
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description | In this paper, we present a novel robotic system developed for researching collective social mechanisms in a biohybrid society of robots and honeybees. The potential for distributed coordination, as observed in nature in many different animal species, has caused an increased interest in collective behaviour research in recent years because of its applicability to a broad spectrum of technical systems requiring robust multi-agent control. One of the main problems is understanding the mechanisms driving the emergence of collective behaviour of social animals. With the aim of deepening the knowledge in this field, we have designed a multi-robot system capable of interacting with honeybees within an experimental arena. The final product, stationary autonomous robot units, designed by specificaly considering the physical, sensorimotor and behavioral characteristics of the honeybees (lat. Apis mallifera), are equipped with sensing, actuating, computation, and communication capabilities that enable the measurement of relevant environmental states, such as honeybee presence, and adequate response to the measurements by generating heat, vibration and airflow. The coordination among robots in the developed system is established using distributed controllers. The cooperation between the two different types of collective systems is realized by means of a consensus algorithm, enabling the honeybees and the robots to achieve a common objective. Presented results, obtained within ASSISIbf project, show successful cooperation indicating its potential for future applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-55499022017-08-15 A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees Griparić, Karlo Haus, Tomislav Miklić, Damjan Polić, Marsela Bogdan, Stjepan PLoS One Research Article In this paper, we present a novel robotic system developed for researching collective social mechanisms in a biohybrid society of robots and honeybees. The potential for distributed coordination, as observed in nature in many different animal species, has caused an increased interest in collective behaviour research in recent years because of its applicability to a broad spectrum of technical systems requiring robust multi-agent control. One of the main problems is understanding the mechanisms driving the emergence of collective behaviour of social animals. With the aim of deepening the knowledge in this field, we have designed a multi-robot system capable of interacting with honeybees within an experimental arena. The final product, stationary autonomous robot units, designed by specificaly considering the physical, sensorimotor and behavioral characteristics of the honeybees (lat. Apis mallifera), are equipped with sensing, actuating, computation, and communication capabilities that enable the measurement of relevant environmental states, such as honeybee presence, and adequate response to the measurements by generating heat, vibration and airflow. The coordination among robots in the developed system is established using distributed controllers. The cooperation between the two different types of collective systems is realized by means of a consensus algorithm, enabling the honeybees and the robots to achieve a common objective. Presented results, obtained within ASSISIbf project, show successful cooperation indicating its potential for future applications. Public Library of Science 2017-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5549902/ /pubmed/28792955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181977 Text en © 2017 Griparić et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Griparić, Karlo Haus, Tomislav Miklić, Damjan Polić, Marsela Bogdan, Stjepan A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title | A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title_full | A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title_fullStr | A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title_full_unstemmed | A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title_short | A robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
title_sort | robotic system for researching social integration in honeybees |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5549902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28792955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181977 |
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