Abstract
Since Darwin published “the theory of evolution”, studying animals has been contributing to understanding human psychology and also having effects on robotic researchers. We then started to study interaction between rats and robots to develop a framework of adaptive interaction between animals and robots. Therefore, a small mobile robot, WM-6 and experimental setup were developed to perform the experimental study on interaction between rats and robots. The objective of this paper is to investigate task teaching to the rat using the robot. Referring to the technique of “shaping” proposed by Skinner, the teaching behavior algorithm for the robot was developed. This algorithm was implemented into the robot and setup. The experiment using 5 rats, three of them are experimental subjects and the others are control subjects, was performed to evaluate this algorithm. The experimental subjects leamed the task while the control subjects didn't. Thus, the teaching behavior algorithm was verified.
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