| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M77239/01 |
| Title: |
SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION FOR AN OUTDOOR ROBOT BASED ON CRICKET BEHAVIOUR & PHSYSIOLOGY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Webb, Professor B |
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| Department: |
Psychology |
| Organisation: |
University of Stirling |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 2000 |
Ends: |
31 December 2002 |
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206,595
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| Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
Information Technologies |
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Robots for outdoor applications such as agriculture require sensorimotor robustness in unengineered environments and must integrate multiple control systems. Biological systems provide a possible source of novel mechanisms for achieving these requirements, if we can understand the principles by which they work. The understanding and the application of these mechanisms are most effectively explored by using robot models of well-defined, behaviourally-valid and biologically-based tasks. We propose to build a 'cricket' robot capable of autonomous sound localisation in an outdoor environment; utilising vision, touch and proprioception for course stablisation; implemented on a six-legged walking platform. An existing system for sound localisation will be interfaced to a robot capable of outdoor operation and tested in a natural environment. An optomotor system, as used by many insects for course stablisation, will be interfaced to the phonotaxis system. Then, using increasingly challenging environments that include obstacles and uneven ground, appropriate touch sensors and proprioceptive sensors will be developed. Schemes for integrating the multiple sensory systems (such as neurally coded vector addition or priority-based competition using priming and supression) will be investigated and evaluated. Finally the sensory mechanisms will be deployed on a six-legged robot to explore integrating sensory systems with complex motor control.
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