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In this paper, we introduced an experimental system in which an optogenetic moth was bounded to a virtual environment that we could clearly control and observe. By using this system, we investigated the effect of stereo sensors for the performance of chemical plume tracing (CPT) tasks. We examined the three different sensory conditions, Normal, Reverse, where the left and the right sensors were inverted, and Both, where a moth always received both the left and the right sensor inputs simultaneously. The result showed us that (i) the moth’s CPT behavior was highly fault-tolerant against the jamming to the stereo sensors, and (ii) consistent behavior might be important for the CPT performance.
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This study was partially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, MEXT Japan 25420212 and JSPS Japan 12J10557. The experiments in this presentation were approved based on Article 22 clause 2 of the safety management rule of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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Kishi, K. et al. (2016). Experiment of Stereo Sensors for Chemical Plume Tracing by Optogenetic Silkworm Moth. In: Menegatti, E., Michael, N., Berns, K., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 302. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08338-4_106
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