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Biol. Bull. 200: 222-226. (April 2001)
© 2001 Marine Biological Laboratory

Plume-Tracking Robots: A New Application of Chemical Sensors

Hiroshi Ishida1,*, Takamichi Nakamoto2, Toyosaka Moriizumi2, Timo Kikas1 and Jiri Janata1

1 School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400
2 Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ishida{at}ee.titech.ac.jp

Many animals have the ability to search for odor sources by tracking their plumes. Some of the key features of this search behavior have been successfully transferred to robot platforms, although the capabilities of animals are still beyond the current level of sensor technologies. The examples described in this paper are (1) incorporating into a wheeled robot the upwind surges and casting used by moths in tracking pheromone plumes, (2) extracting useful information from the response patterns of a chemical sensor array patterned after the spatially distributed chemoreceptors of some animals, and (3) mimicking the fanning behavior of silkworm moths to enhance the reception of chemical signals by drawing molecules from one direction. The achievements so far and current efforts are reviewed to illustrate the steps to be taken toward future development of this technology.




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