Experimental Study on Task Teaching to Real Rats through Interaction with a Robotic Rat
Hiroyuki Ishii, Motonori Ogura, Shunji Kurisu, Atsushi Komura, Atsuo Takanishi, Naritoshi Iida and Hiroshi Kimura
Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 2006 (SAB 2006)
Rome, Italy, 25-29 September 2006
Summary
“Learning” has been well studied in several research areas such as psychology, brain science, computer science and robotics. In these studies, many experiments using animals have been performed. On the other hand, several researchers have been studying adaptive interactions and task learning through interactions between humans and robots. We then focus on adaptive in-teractions between animals and robots. The purpose of our research is to de-velop a framework of adaptive interactions between animals and robots through interaction experiments between rats and a robotic rat. We propose a novel be-havior generation algorithm for the robot to enable it to autonomously teach a simple behavior task to rats as an example of adaptive interaction. This algo-rithm was implemented in the robot and the experimental setup, and then veri-fied through the experiment.