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Chapter and Conference Paper
Topical Grou** of Thousands of Biomimetics Articles According to Their Goals, Results and Methods
Here we discuss the limitations of current topic modeling methods for scientific documents, which are often too coarse-grained to identify the specific themes of an article accurately. This is particularly cha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ten Years of Living Machines Conferences: Transformers-Based Automated Topic Grou**
The overwhelming growth in the number of scientific publications has its drawbacks: it is difficult to cope with it. Researchers need to constantly process the information contained in a very large and increas...
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Article
Open AccessTracing the origins of SARS-COV-2 in coronavirus phylogenies: a review
SARS-CoV-2 is a new human coronavirus (CoV), which emerged in China in late 2019 and is responsible for the global COVID-19 pandemic that caused more than 97 million infections and 2 million deaths in 12 month...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Calibration of Artificial Neural Networks for Zebrafish Collective Behaviours Using a Quality Diversity Algorithm
During the last two decades, various models have been proposed for fish collective motion. These models are mainly developed to decipher the biological mechanisms of social interaction between animals. They co...
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Article
Closed-loop interactions between a shoal of zebrafish and a group of robotic fish in a circular corridor
Collective behavior based on self-organization has been observed in populations of animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have motivated engineers to investigate approaches to control autonomous m...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolutionary Optimisation of Neural Network Models for Fish Collective Behaviours in Mixed Groups of Robots and Zebrafish
Animal and robot social interactions are interesting both for ethological studies and robotics. On the one hand, the robots can be tools and models to analyse animal collective behaviours, on the other hand th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How to Blend a Robot Within a Group of Zebrafish: Achieving Social Acceptance Through Real-Time Calibration of a Multi-level Behavioural Model
We have previously shown how to socially integrate a fish robot into a group of zebrafish thanks to biomimetic behavioural models. The models have to be calibrated on experimental data to present correct behav...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automated Calibration of a Biomimetic Space-Dependent Model for Zebrafish and Robot Collective Behaviour in a Structured Environment
Bio-hybrid systems made of robots and animals can be useful tools both for biology and robotics. To socially integrate robots into animal groups the robots should behave in a biomimetic manner with close loop ...
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Article
Open AccessTransition between segregation and aggregation: the role of environmental constraints
Interactions between sub-groups (species, strains) have been reported in many species among many taxae. We propose a generic model based on earlier experiments accounting for both conspecific (or between indiv...
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Article
Infiltrating the zebrafish swarm: design, implementation and experimental tests of a miniature robotic fish lure for fish–robot interaction studies
Robotic fish are nowadays developed for various types of research, such as bio-inspiredrobotics, biomimetics and animal behavior studies. In the context of our research on the social interactions of the zebraf...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-objective Optimization of Multi-level Models for Controlling Animal Collective Behavior with Robots
Group-living animals often exhibit complex collective behaviors that emerge through the non-linear dynamics of social interactions between individuals. Previous studies have shown that it is possible to influe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Bio-hybrid Systems Made of Social Animals and Robots
For making artificial systems collaborate with group-living animals, the scientific challenge is to build artificial systems that can perceive, communicate to, interact with and adapt to animals. When such cap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ASSISI: Mixing Animals with Robots in a Hybrid Society
This paper describes the newly started EU-funded FP7 project ASSISI|bf, which deals with mixed societies: A honeybee society integrated with a group of stationary and interacting autonomous robotic nodes and a gr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Integration of an Autonomous Artificial Agent in an Insect Society: Experimental Validation
In mixed societies of robots and cockroaches, several insect-like-robot (Insbot) and animals interact in order to perform collective decision-making. Many gregarious species are able to collectively select a r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collective Decision-Making Based on Individual Discrimination Capability in Pre-social Insects
Gregarious insects, like cockroaches, aggregate in shelters during their resting period. How do individuals reach a collegial decision? What is the relation between the distributions of the individuals and the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Individual Discrimination Capability and Collective Choice in Social Insects
In an ant society individuals coming from different groups (lines, strains) bear it own chemical identity and those individuals present discrimination capabilities between different chemical profiles. However,...
