Title :
An Automatic Control System for Ratbot Navigation
Author :
Zhang, Yanming ; Sun, Chao ; Zheng, Nenggan ; Zhang, Shaomin ; Lin, Jiyan ; Chen, Weidong ; Zheng, Xiaoxiang
Author_Institution :
Qiushi Acad. for Adv. Studies, Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a novel intelligent control system for rat navigation based on video tracking and state machine techniques. And we demonstrate the automatic navigation of a rat to follow a preset course. The system consists of these components: (1) a wireless backpack stimulator comprised of stimulating circuit, control processor and bluetooth transceivers, (2) a video camera device capturing the rat´s movement, (3) a state machine based control program generating navigation commands automatically. The main contribution of this work is the intelligent control system for navigating a rat accurately and automatically in a comparatively narrow space. Experiment results show that the system is stable and practical.
Keywords :
Bluetooth; biomimetics; finite state machines; intelligent control; mobile robots; path planning; transceivers; video cameras; video surveillance; automatic control system; bluetooth transceiver; control processor; intelligent control system; rat navigation; ratbot navigation; state machine; stimulating circuit; video camera; video tracking; wireless backpack stimulator; Cameras; Head; Navigation; Noise; Pixel; Robot sensing systems; automatic rat navigation; video tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2010 IEEE/ACM Int'l Conference on & Int'l Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom)
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9779-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4331-4
DOI :
10.1109/GreenCom-CPSCom.2010.168
