Collective behavior based on self-organization has been observed in populations of animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have motivated engineers to investigate approaches to control autonomous multi-robot systems able to reproduce collective animal behaviors, and even to collectively interact with groups of animals. In this article, we show collective decision making by a group of autonomous robots and a group of zebrafish, leading to a shared decision about swimming direction. The robots can also modulate the collective decision-making process in biased and non-biased experimental setups. These results demonstrate the possibility of creating mixed societies of vertebrates and robots in order to study or control animal behavior.

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斑马鱼滩和一组机器人鱼在环形走廊中的闭环相互作用

从昆虫到脊椎动物，在动物种群中观察到了基于自组织的集体行为。这些发现促使工程师们研究控制自主多机器人系统的方法，这些系统能够重现动物的集体行为，甚至能够与动物群体进行集体互动。在本文中，我们展示了一组自动机器人和一组斑马鱼的集体决策，从而导致了关于游泳方向的共同决策。机器人还可以在有偏和无偏实验设置中调节集体决策过程。这些结果表明，为了研究或控制动物行为，可能会建立脊椎动物和机器人的混合社会。