Animal Robot Prototypes Guided by Telestimulation System

Author

Wang, Yongling ; Yuan, Kui ; Li, Jianfeng ; Song, Weiguo

Author_Institution

Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1777

Lastpage

1781

Abstract

A telestimulation system is described that enables an experimenter to train animal robots remotely. The system consists of three separate components: a transmitter base station that is controlled by a PC operator, a multi-channel remote-controlled stimulator backed by animal, and a computer vision based animal motion-analysis system. This system enables multichannel brain and body stimulation experiments in freely moving animals, and training experiments have done to rats, rabbits and dogs, which shows that the telestimulation system works accurately even under interference condition. Rat-robots and rabbit-robots have been trained successfully with our new animal robot training method, which integrates both sound cue and electrical stimulation. A beagle is training now to be a dog-robot, and more animal robot prototypes will come into being soon.

Keywords

computer vision; human computer interaction; mobile robots; telerobotics; PC operator; animal motion-analysis system; animal robot prototypes; brain computer interface; computer vision; electrical stimulation; multi-channel remote-controlled stimulator; rabbit-robots; rat-robots; robot training method; telestimulation system; transmitter base station; Animals; Base stations; Computer vision; Control systems; Motion control; Prototypes; Rabbits; Rats; Robots; Transmitters; animal robot; brain computer interface; electrical stimulation; telestimulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation, 2007. ICMA 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0828-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0828-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2007.4303819

Filename

4303819