Robots and Animals in Mixed Societies

Interaction between robots and animals in mixed societies is really a big challenge and an absolutely new research field. During many years researchers over the world have developed robots that are mechanically inspired by animals or robots that uses biologic actuators but only few robots that interacts with animals and none which tries to be accepted in the society as another animal.

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: humans.
The exact goals are described below:
• Behavioral model. It will propose a formal behavioral model, which applies to mixed societies, and study its properties.
• Interpretation and “real” worlds: the mixed-societies. It will provide a validation of the behavioral model. i.e. show that it gives an understanding of the computational capabilities of animal societies.
• Controlling the global behavior of society. It will control mixed societies. We will show that it is actually feasible to change the global behavior of a mixed society and a demonstration will be provided on “real” mixed society.
• Toward some general methodology. It will provide a general methodology for the study and control of mixed society.
• Relevance of our results to quality of life and management of living resources. The evidence of the relevance of the results to other configurations of mixed societies will be provided.