A Robot Attracted to the Cricket Species Gryllus bimaculatus
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چکیده
Unlike most Arti cial Life studies, we use biological data to verify a hypothesis about control mechanisms. We recorded male cricket Gryllus bimaculatus calling song, built a robot with the hypothesised control mechanism for phonotaxis behaviour and veri ed that it could account for the behaviour by observing the robot doing phonotaxis to the real cricket song. Further, we present a set of robot experiments that show how frequency dependence of the ear directionality in crickets can account for frequency selectivity in phonotaxis. Further, the results suggest that this mechanism also might account for part of the female choice behaviour.
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