Bioinspired Implementation and Assessment of a Remote-Controlled Robot

Figure 4

Picture of the experimental setting. The symmetric form of the path was chosen to easily alternate the course direction of the robot from one trial to the next: once clockwise and once counter clockwise. This alternation was designed to minimize the environment learning and a consequent machine-like driving of the vehicle. The two straight lines, two 150° bends, and one 90° bend are identified by broken yellow, green, and magenta lines, respectively. Note that these colors are added for a better understanding of the setup but were not visible during the experiment.