昆虫の適応行動理解のための移動型トレッドミルの構築

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In this study, we constructed an mobile treadmill for measuriing adaptive behavior of an insect. We focused on the odor source localization problem and constructed the mobile treadmill. We used a male silkworm moth as an experimental insect which searches a female by walking. We evaluated the performance of the mobile treadmill by performing an odor source localization experiment. As a result of the search experiment, the silkworm moth on the mobile treadmill was able to reach the odor source with 100% success rate. Therefore we succeeded in constructing the insect behavior measurement system and driving system of the mobile treadmill.