BurrowView - seeing the world through the eyes of rats

Author

Link, Jó Ágila Bitsch ; Fabritius, Gregor ; Alizai, Muhammad Hamad ; Wehrle, Klaus

Author_Institution

Distrib. Syst. Group, RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

March 29 2010-April 2 2010

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

61

Abstract

For a long time, life sciences were restricted to look at animal habitats only post-factum. Pervasive computing puts us in the novel position to gain live views. In this paper we present BurrowView, an application that tracks the movement of rats in their natural habitat and reconstructs the underground tunnel system. To make reliable statements, special consideration has been taken with regard to the information quality. Our system is able to reconstruct paths up to a resolution of 20 cm, the length of a rat without its tail.

Keywords

ubiquitous computing; BurrowView; animal habitat; information quality; pervasive computing; underground tunnel system; Animals; Disruption tolerant networking; Eyes; Global Positioning System; Organisms; Pervasive computing; Rats; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Tail; Tracking; animal tracking; information quality; pervasive computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mannheim

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6605-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6606-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470603

Filename

5470603