Technical Opinion: From Animal Behaviour to Autonomous Robots
This paper aims to inspire new approaches for developing autonomous robots by drawing parallels to animal behavior, which could benefit roboticists working on real-world applications.
This paper reviews robot autonomy from the perspective of animal behavior, examining state-of-the-art techniques and suggesting future research directions. It tackles the problem of developing autonomous robots for complex, unstructured environments by drawing inspiration from nature's solutions to autonomy.
With the rising applications of robots in unstructured real-world environments, roboticists are increasingly concerned with the problems posed by the complexity of such environments. One solution to these problems is robot autonomy. Since nature has already solved the problem of autonomy it can be a suitable model for developing autonomous robots. This paper presents a concise review on robot autonomy from the perspective of animal behaviour. It examines some state-of-the-art techniques as well as suggesting possible research directions.