2018
PiRat: An Autonomous Framework for Studying Social Behaviour in Rats and Robots
Scott Heath, Carlos Andres Ramirez-Brinez, Joshua Arnold, Ola Olsson, Jonathon Taufatofua, Pauline Pounds +6
IROS 2018poster
The use of robots, as a social stimulus, provides several advantages over using another animal. In particular, for rat-robot studies, robots can produce social behaviour that is reproducible across trials. In the current work, we outline a framework for rat-robot interaction studies, that consists o…