Perception and behavior of InsBot : Robot-Animal interaction issues. Tâche, F., Asadpour, M., Caprari, G., Karlen, W., & Siegwart, R. In 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pages 517-522, 2005. IEEE.
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This paper describes the hardware and behavior implementation of a miniature robot, in size of a match box, that is able to interact with cockroaches. The robot is equipped with two micro-processors dedicated to hardware processing and behavior generation. It is also equipped with 12 infra-red proximity sensors, 2 light sensors, a linear camera and a battery that allows 3 hours autonomy. The robot can discriminate cockroaches, other robots, environment boundaries and shelters. It has also three means of communication: a wireless module for monitoring and logging, an IR remote receiver for fast supervision of biological experiment and a simple local communication protocol via infrared proximity sensors to detect robots in short range

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