Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot

Abstract

Abstract.A common behavior in animals or human beings is deception. We focus on deceptive behavior in robotics because the appropriate use of deception is beneficial in several domains ranging from the military to a more everyday context. In this research, novel algorithms are developed for the deceptive behavior of a robot, inspired by the observed deceptive behavior of squirrels for cache protection strategies, evaluating the results via simulation studies.

An Analysis of Deceptive Robot Motion

“…Our approach is complementary to existing methods for autonomous deception, which usually lie at the symbolic level, and are inspired by either game theory [34,35] or biology [15,26]. Fig.1(top) shows three examples generated by our model: a trajectory that conveys the wrong goal (along with its higher-dimensional counterpart on the left), one that switches between conveying either goal, and one that keeps the goal as ambiguous as possible.…”

A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI

“…Another study is developing robot's deceptive behavior inspired by biology. It applies squirrel's food protection behavior to robotic systems and shows how a robot successfully uses this deception algorithm for resource protection [3].…”

“…Mobbing robot [12], Robot deception using interdependence theory [4], Squirrel-like resource protection robot [3] H-O-B Deceiving humans for deceived human's benefit using behavioral interactions Robot deception in entertainment [14], Deceptive robot learner for children [17], Robot referees for human game players [15] N-O-B Deceiving other robots or nonhumans for deceived other's benefit using behavioral interactions Robot Sheepdog [29] Figure 1b. Initially, the robot employs the true patrolling strategy when the select-true-location trigger is activated.…”

“…In our previous research [3], we developed and evaluated a robot's deceptive behaviors for resource protecting strategies, which is potentially applicable in military context and inspired by biology. The patrolling strategy used by Eastern Grey Squirrels is one interesting example in nature regarding the possible role of deception [30], where they use deception to protect their food caches from other predators.…”

“…Despite its importance, however, very little research on robot deception has been conducted until recently. Much of the current research on robot deception [1], [2], [3] focuses on applications and not on fundamental theory, such as the definition of a taxonomy for robot deception. For more details, we review previous research on robot deception in Section II We contend that defining robot deception and establishing a taxonomy for it are important as a foundation for further robotics research on the subject, and herein we present such a taxonomy.…”