Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102658

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160102658

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

RoboCrab: An integrative approach to the natural ecology of decision making. The project aims to analyse and model the sophisticated and context-dependent escape behaviour of fiddler crabs under both natural conditions and in controlled laboratory settings. A crucial problem for biology is to understand how animals can make adaptive decisions in natural, complex sensory environments; such understanding also has direct application to robotics. The project plans to examine the effects of eye stabilisation and oscillation, record from key neural stages using naturalistic stimuli to derive precise algorithms, and integrate and test the results on a robot model – RoboCrab. This may provide new insight into the integration of low-level sensory input with behavioural decision making circuits and the evolution of escape behaviours.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $437,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering |

Other Keywords

Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences | Zoology

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