Mixed Societies of Robots and Animals

Interaction between robots and animals in mixed societies is really a big challenge and an absolutely new research field. This kind of research is basis for further research that can be applied in agriculture and may be one day for a better interaction with the most sophisticated animal: human.

This is a first challenge of building very small robots that can be compatible with animals. Secondly it is of interest to study perception and sensors for bio-interaction. Finally the behavior aspects are very important for collective robotics. The exact goals are:
• Behavioral model. To propose a formal behavioral model, this applies to mixed societies, and studies its properties. It will formalize the behavior in a programming language.
• Interpretation and real worlds: the mixed societies. To provide a validation of behavioral model, i.e. show that it gives an understanding of the computational capabilities of animal societies.
• Controlling the global behavior of the society. To control mixed societies.
• Towards some general methodology. To provide a general methodology for the study and control mixed societies. For instance it will answer such questions as “are there typically configuration patterns that support a priori behavioral organization of mixed societies”.
• Relevance of our results to qualify of life and management of living resources. The evidence of the relevance of result to other configurations of mixed societies will be provided.