Erden,Z.Araz,M.Mechatronics Engineering2024-07-052024-07-0520160978-989758199-110.5220/00059727021702242-s2.0-84991282483https://doi.org/10.5220/0005972702170224https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/3813Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT); Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC)Research in behavior-based design faces many challenges regarding the AIDS in conceptual design of biorobots, representation of a biological system,s behavior in a well formed modeling tool and therefore providing systematic transformation of this behavior into robot design. This paper reports a research that focuses on the development of a Petri Net model to represent a biological system,s behavior. The model is based on real time data collected from an experiment in which a dog is walking on a treadmill with a speed of 1km/h. The model has the ability of simulating the real time rhythm of dog's walking behavior utilizing colors and numbers as well as the step-by-step simulation. The aim is to observe the behavior of a walking dog in time domain as an early stage of conceptual design of a bioinspired robot dog. Main challenge is to develop a methodology to guide designer towards more creative designs based on bioinspired design ideas. The presented work is an early attempt to initiate a systematic approach towards the stated goal. © Copyright 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBehavioural SimulationBioinspired DesignPetri NetConference Object217224