Investigation of male searching for female silkworm using an artificial pheromone in free-space environment

Abstract

A male insect can exhibit interesting motions and behaviours when it detects the female pheromone. The behaviour shown by a male insect is frequently used for nature-inspired robotics research especially for various applications such as teleoperated and autonomous source locating robots. In this research, we investigate the male searching for female behaviour by changing the source of pheromone using an artificial pheromone. This research is conducted by using three male insects, where, each insect performs three trials and the chosen environment is a free-space environment. The three male insects perform satisfactorily without having any hurdle in a free-space scenario using artificial pheromone. It is concluded that the motion behaviour of insects can be applied in the real robot for searching mission.