3 accepted papers
In this letter, we propose a motion generation strategy using imitation learning (IL) for biomimetic robots to interact with animals in a more natural manner. We previously developed a bioinspired spine mechanism allowing the robot to mimic rat motion closely. Thanks to the spine morphology, we esta
In this paper, we propose an automatic robot-rat interaction framework that enables a robotic rat to realize real-time localization, tracking and movement analysis of a laboratory rat. Specifically, we combine an object detector with stereo matching to achieve fast localization of the laboratory rat…
Social interaction between a robot and rats is important since the robot can generate reproducible social behaviors across trials. However, lacking internal state feedback from the rat makes current robot-rat interaction a very preliminary level comparing with rat-rat interaction. Previous biologica…