バーチャルリアリティシステムを用いた昆虫の匂い源探索行動の計測と解析

抄録

Finding the odor source is one of the difficult tasks for an autonomous robot because it is difficult to detect the odor information. On the other hand, insects have the ability to find the odor source by integrating multiple sensory information. However, this multimodal information processing has not yet been elucidated because it is difficult to measure the relationship between input environmental information and output behavior based on free walking experiments. In this paper, therefore, we constructed a virtual reality system (VR) that can measure the relationship between the multiple sensory input timing and behavioral output for analyzing the insect odor source search behavior.