Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In this study, we focused on C.elegans and aimed to clarify its swarm search behavior mechanism. In this research we propose a method to quantify the complex trajectories of C.elegans. The proposed method is divided into three parts. First, the distance from the chemical source was derived from the coordinate frame data obtained by carrying out experiments. Second, we fitted this data using polynomial linear regression. Third, from this fitting we classified a pattern of the actions of C.elegans. Based on our proposed method, we could quantitatively analyze complex trajectories for all experimental trials after we classified them. This result suggests that the swarm search behavior can be quantified by comparing it with the classification result when experimenting with multiple specimens.
