Abstract
We describe the first robot designed to emulate the specific perceptual and motor capabilities of the fiddler crab. An omnidirectional robot platform uses onboard computation to process images from a 360 degrees camera view, filtering them through a biological model of the crab’s ommatidia layout, extracting potential ‘predator’ cues, and executing an evasion response that also depends on contextual information. We show that, as for real crabs, multiple cues are needed for effective escape in different predator-prey scenarios.
Type
Publication
In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
Evripidis Gkanias
Research Associate in Computational & Neuromorphic Modelling
Post-doctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, and the University of Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering.