アイガモ群の追従行動を音声で制御する解発因を用いる誘導ロボット

抄録

The purpose of this study is to develop an autonomous guidance robot for supporting the rice-duck farming (it's among the organic farming). Advantage of this method is unnecessary to employ agricultural chemicals because the ducks eat weeds and harmful insects. However, uneven extermination effect and labor for breeding of ducks disturb the spread of this farming system. The duck robot has been developed in order to solve the problems. The function of this robot is autonomously control of ducks by operating the guidance devices. We conducted the experiment in a paddy field of the rice-duck farming to test the system. As a result of this experiment, we needed to reconsider the guidance devices. According to the knowledge of the Ethology, the ducks' song as the ducks' releaser is applicable to control of the duck flock. Therefore, we analyzed a conventional sound and the ducks' songs in the paddy field. Consequently, there are different properties. Moreover, we conduct the experiment to employ the diverse sound and improve the robot from the results.