Robotic Control Inspired by the Object Manipulation Performed by Harvester Ants

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Principal goal for project: To improve the current field of robotic manipulation by incorporating bio-inspired aspects based on harvester ants.Research project: This project aims to use biological inspiration to improve the capabilities of robotic arms that manipulate objects in unknown and cluttered environments. The bio-inspiration is provided by harvester ants, and how they manipulate, pick up, and drag unknown objects; like food. By using ants, that have a relatively simple computational complexity, as a subject to find a solution to a complex task, the solution may be also computationally simple.