Modelling and Analysis of Agent Behaviour

Mobile robotics can be a useful tool for the life scientist in that they combine perception, computation and action, and are therefore comparable to living beings. They have, however, the distinct advantage that their behaviour can be manipulated by changing their programs and/or their hardware. In this chapter, quantitative measurements of mobile robot behaviour and a theory of robot-environment interaction that can easily be applied to the analysis of behaviour of mobile robots and animals is presented. Interestingly such an analysis is based on chaos theory.