Animal movements are complex patterns affected by multiple internal
(e.g. cognitive or locomotor abilities) and external (e.g. environmental
or social) factors whose respective contributions are challenging to
evaluate. In this interdisciplinary course, students will have the
opportunity to get a hands-on team-oriented research experience in
animal behaviour and theoretical biology. The course will propose to
develop a research question inspired by existing animal behaviour
experiments and to abstract it into a model in which agents are imbued
with artificial neural networks. Students will also be introduced to
swarm robotics. All students with a keen interest in quantitative
methods and basic research are welcome to join. Advanced or basic
programming skills (knowing what functions, variables, loops and
conditions are) will be helpful.
- Kursverantwortliche/r: Dr Valentin Lecheval