CS395-03/EECE395-03

Behavior Based Robotics

Assignment #2

Fall 2002

Distributed: Monday September 9th

Due: Monday September 16th

 

1. Lions are known to hunt for their food.  Think about the movies, shows, etc. that you have seen depicting Lions hunting.  Recall that it is common for lions to hunt in packs of two or more lions.  List the sub-behaviors required to track, hunt, and capture their prey.  Indicate if each sub-behavior is an individual lion sub-behavior or a team sub-behavior.  A team sub-behavior is a sub-behavior performed by the entire pack while hunting.

 

2. The following questions are related to the paper: "Behavior Models of the Praying Mantis as a Basis for Robotic Behavior".

a. What is chantlitaxia behavior?

b. Describe ASL.

c. Describe NSL.

d. What factors determine the "efficacy of visual stimuli to release a response"?

e. How do the authors define "emergent behavior"?

f. In the author's vision implementation, describe what the system visually responds too.

g. How does the robot choose it's actions in the author's system?

h. Can you think of any real-world tasks that this robot based upon a Praying Mantis could be used for?

3. What are the primary differences between the following basis for behavior: Neuroscience, Psychological, and Ethological?