TY - GEN
T1 - Invasive alien species respond to biologically-inspired robotic predators
AU - Karakaya, Mert
AU - Porfiri, Maurizio
AU - Polverino, Giovanni
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMMI-1505832 and by the Forrest Research Foundation. The authors are thankful to Vrishin Rajiv Soman and Chiara Spinello for the help with the experiments on which the analysis presented in this paper is based.
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© 2020 SPIE
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Invasive alien species threaten natural ecosystems worldwide, prey on native species, and deplete their food sources. Mosquitofish is one of the most invasive freshwater fish worldwide and its negative impacts on the native fauna are alarming. Despite the urgency of contrasting the mosquitofish invasion, we have access to very few methods to combat them. Even when successful, these methods can be excessively labor-intensive or dangerous to native species. Robotic predators may constitute a promising tool in combating mosquitofish. Our group has recently proposed the use of a robotic predator that can perform targeted attacks against mosquitofish. The robotic predator consists of three operational parts: a two-dimensional robotic platform, a magnetically connected replica of a native mosquitofish predator, and an in-house developed live tracking software. The robotic replica was programmed to swim along a predetermined trajectory and randomly target mosquitofish in real time through a dedicated tracking software. Building on available experimental results, we put forward a comprehensive mathematical toolbox based on symbolic dynamics, recurrence quantification, and information theory to detail the behavioral interaction between the robotic predator and mosquitofish.
AB - Invasive alien species threaten natural ecosystems worldwide, prey on native species, and deplete their food sources. Mosquitofish is one of the most invasive freshwater fish worldwide and its negative impacts on the native fauna are alarming. Despite the urgency of contrasting the mosquitofish invasion, we have access to very few methods to combat them. Even when successful, these methods can be excessively labor-intensive or dangerous to native species. Robotic predators may constitute a promising tool in combating mosquitofish. Our group has recently proposed the use of a robotic predator that can perform targeted attacks against mosquitofish. The robotic predator consists of three operational parts: a two-dimensional robotic platform, a magnetically connected replica of a native mosquitofish predator, and an in-house developed live tracking software. The robotic replica was programmed to swim along a predetermined trajectory and randomly target mosquitofish in real time through a dedicated tracking software. Building on available experimental results, we put forward a comprehensive mathematical toolbox based on symbolic dynamics, recurrence quantification, and information theory to detail the behavioral interaction between the robotic predator and mosquitofish.
KW - Animal-robot interactions
KW - Ethorobotics
KW - Information theory
KW - Invasive species
KW - Live-tracking
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2557871
DO - 10.1117/12.2557871
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85096353652
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication X
A2 - Knez, Mato
A2 - Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
A2 - Martin-Palma, Raul J.
PB - SPIE
T2 - Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication X 2020
Y2 - 27 April 2020 through 8 May 2020
ER -