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This chapter explores the possibility of using robotics technology in order to aid fish farming. The main idea is to use biomimetic robots that can lead the school and control its swimming behavior. Such approach has several advantages over other technological means, and poses interesting challenges, both as far as robotics technology and fish biology is concerned. In this chapter, such technological challenges are discussed.
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See the Optoswim Company (www.optoswim.com) and Herbert (this book).
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Robotics sheepdogs have been tested with success on experiments with ducks (Vaughan et al. 2000). A simple mobile robot was used to drive the flock to a desired location. In this work, however, the issues of flock splitting or multi-robot approach were not addressed. Such issues have been addressed in the field of multi-agent systems, although mainly in simulations (see e.g. Shames et al. 2007)
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See the SHOAL project, http://www.roboshoal.com
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On of the most famous robot fishes, the RoboTuna developed at MIT in 1994 was composed of almost 3,000 mechanical parts controlled by six motors.
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Rossi, C., Coral, W., Barrientos, A. (2013). Robotic Fish to Lead the School. In: Palstra, A., Planas, J. (eds) Swimming Physiology of Fish. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31049-2_17
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