The development of a low cost animal behavior measurement system

Author

Li, Y.C. ; Young, M.S. ; McPhee, Scott ; Johan, Gijsen ; Jen, S.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a low-cost system for animal behavior measurement. This system includes four animal experiment cages, each cage being attached to a very sensitive vibration sensor. The output signal of each vibration sensor is connected to a four-channel data acquisition system. The vibration sensor we adopt here is modified from a low cost piezoelectric buzzer. The self-made data acquisition system has four 24 bit A/D converters controlled by a signal-chip microprocessor. The microprocessor then sends this vibration information into a PC computer from a RS-232 port for animal behavior analysis

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; biological techniques; biology computing; biomedical measurement; computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; medical signal processing; microprocessor chips; piezoelectric transducers; vibration measurement; 24 bit; A/D converters; animal behavior measurement; animal experiment cages; four-channel data acquisition system; high resolution; low-cost system; modified piezoelectric buzzer; output signal; sensitive vibration sensor; signal-chip microprocessor controlled; Animal behavior; Animal structures; Biomedical measurements; Control systems; Costs; Data acquisition; Microprocessors; Motion measurement; Sensor systems; Vibration measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.803956

Filename

803956