2025-01-06 シンガポール・南洋（ナンヤン）理工大学(NTU)
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.ntu.edu.sg/news/detail/advanced-technology-to-control-cyborg-insect-swarms
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55197-8#Sec6
未知の障害物のある軟弱地形におけるサイボーグ昆虫の群ナビゲーション Swarm navigation of cyborg-insects in unknown obstructed soft terrain
Yang Bai,Phuoc Thanh Tran Ngoc,Huu Duoc Nguyen,Duc Long Le,Quang Huy Ha,Kazuki Kai,Yu Xiang See To,Yaosheng Deng,Jie Song,Naoki Wakamiya,Hirotaka Sato & Masaki Ogura
Nature Communications Published:06 January 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55197-8
Abstract
Cyborg insects refer to hybrid robots that integrate living insects with miniature electronic controllers to enable robotic-like programmable control. These creatures exhibit advantages over conventional robots in adaption to complex terrain and sustained energy efficiency. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature on the control of multi-cyborg systems. This research gap is due to the difficulty in coordinating the movements of a cyborg system under the presence of insects’ inherent individual variability in their reactions to control input. Regarding this issue, we propose a swarm navigation algorithm and verify it under experiments. This research advances swarm robotics by integrating biological organisms with control theory to develop intelligent autonomous systems for real-world applications.
