Title :
An investigation of cow feeding behavior using motion sensors
Author :
Bishop-Hurley, Greg ; Henry, David ; Smith, D. ; Dutta, Ritaban ; Hills, James ; Rawnsley, Richard ; Hellicar, Andrew ; Timms, G. ; Morshed, A. ; Rahman, Aminur ; D´Este, C. ; Shu Yanfeng
Author_Institution :
CSIRO Animal, Food & Health Sci., Australia
Abstract :
An experiment to study the impact of supplements upon the feeding behavior of dairy cattle was conducted at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) Dairy Research Facility. Collar systems with 3-axis accelerometer and magnetometer were fitted to individual cows to infer their feeding behavior. We describe the solutions applied to correct for sensor data issues, and then provide some preliminary analysis associated with developing behavior models using multivariate time series data.
Keywords :
accelerometers; data analysis; farming; magnetometers; production engineering computing; time series; 3-axis accelerometer; collar systems; cow feeding behavior; dairy cattle feeding behavior; magnetometer; motion sensors; multivariate time series data; sensor data issues; Cows; Feature extraction; Global Positioning System; Legged locomotion; Magnetic heads; Sensors; Time series analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) Proceedings, 2014 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Montevideo
DOI :
10.1109/I2MTC.2014.6860952
