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We developed an omnidirectional mobile treadmill for measuring the adaptive behavior of an insect. We focused on the odor source search problem to construct it. We employed a male silkworm moth Bombyx mori, which searches a female by walking, as an experimental insect. We evaluated the performance of the omnidirectional mobile treadmill by performing an odor source search 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 developing the insect behavior measurement system and the drive system of the omnidirectional mobile treadmill.
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This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18H05889, JP19K14943.
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Shigaki, S., Sanada, K., Kurabayashi, D. (2019). Development of Omnidirectional Mobile Treadmill for Neuroethology. In: Martinez-Hernandez, U., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24741-6_38
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