Investigation of Collective Behaviour and Electrocommunication in the Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic Robotic Dummy Fish

@article{Donati2016InvestigationOC,  title={Investigation of Collective Behaviour and Electrocommunication in the Weakly Electric Fish, Mormyrus rume, through a biomimetic Robotic Dummy Fish},  author={Elisa Donati and Martin Worm and Stefano Mintchev and Marleen van der Wiel and Giovanni Benelli and Gerhard von der Emde and Cesare Stefanini},  journal={Bioinspiration \& Biomimetics},  year={2016},  volume={11},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26047199}}
The development of an artificial dummy fish may help to understand fundamental aspects of collective behaviour in weakly electric fish and the properties necessary to initiate and sustain it in closed-loop feedback experiments based on electrocommunication.

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