Paper Info
Title
A rat-like robot WR-5 for animal behavior research
Abstract
In animal behavior research, rat models of mental disorders (RMMDs) are developed to screen psychotropic drugs and to clarify the mechanism of mental disorders. Meanwhile, interaction between real rats is used to evaluate the RMMD. However, since rat-rat interaction is hard to control and quantify, we have adopted a bio-inspired robot to interact with real rats owing to its programmability and reconfigurability in testing different models. We have developed several rat-like robots before, however, these robots still can not fully satisfy the requirement of animal experiment. As an improvement, the newest generation rat-like robot called WR-5 is developed. WR-5 can perform mounting and grooming actions naturally as live mature rat owing to adopted differential gear in its waist. Preliminary SIT between WR-5 and mature rats have been conducted strictly following psychological rules. Experimental results show that rats are more active and have fewer frequencies of grooming and rearing actions when WR-5 performs mounting action periodically. The rat-like robot is therefore able to make the anxiety level of rats high by means of performing mounting action.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6491063
ROBIO
Keywords
Field
DocType
rmmd,bioinspired robot,robots,animal behavior research,rat-like robot wr-5,sit,mounting action,rat-rat interaction,rat models of mental disorders,zoology,psychological rules
Differential (mechanical device),Reconfigurability,Anxiety,Animal behavior,Control engineering,Engineering,Robot
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2125-9
2
0.47
References 
Authors
6
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qing Shi1176.97
Hiroyuki Ishii25714.73
Hikaru Sugita320.47
Shinichi Kinoshita4113.44
Zhuohua Lin5457.74
Atsuo Takanishi61592319.81
Satoshi Okabayashi7153.66
Naritoshi Iida8184.11
Hiroshi Kimura9184.11