Wireless Inertial Sensors for Monitoring Animal Behavior

Wireless sensors were designed which are small and light enough to be worn by small animals such as rats. These sensors are used to record three axes acceleration data from animals during natural behavior in a cage. The behavior of the animal is further extracted from the recorded acceleration data...

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Main Authors: Venkatraman, S., Long, J.D., Pister, K.S.J., Carmena, J.M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Acceleration
Animal behavior
Biological neural networks
Data mining
Monitoring
Neuroscience
Pattern recognition
Rats
Wearable sensors
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Wireless sensors were designed which are small and light enough to be worn by small animals such as rats. These sensors are used to record three axes acceleration data from animals during natural behavior in a cage. The behavior of the animal is further extracted from the recorded acceleration data using neural network based pattern recognition algorithms. Successful recognition of eating, grooming and standing are demonstrated using this approach. Finally another potential application of this research is demonstrated in behavioral neuroscience by showing correlations between action potentials recorded from the motor cortex of a rat and acceleration data.
ISSN:1094-687X
1558-4615
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352303