Automated training assisting device for training non-human primate animal to control mechanical arm to conduct stretching and grabbing

Abstract

The invention provides an automated training assisting device for training a non-human primate animal to control a mechanical arm to conduct stretching and grabbing. The automated training assisting device comprises a mechanical arm, a three-dimensional storage platform, an animal control device, a microcontroller, a water feeding control system and a PC; the microcontroller is connected with themechanical arm, the three-dimensional storage platform, the animal control device, the water feeding system and the PC separately. The automated training assisting device is reasonable in design, easyto operate and high in training efficiency; the position of a grabbed object can be automatically changed in a three-dimensional space, the grabbing identification range of the mechanical arm, the movement speed, the illuminating range of an LED matrix and other training parameters can be quickly adjusted, stepwise learning training is achieved, the learning difficulty is reduced, the training process is adapted to, and switching can be achieved between the movement mode of the animal control device and the movement mode of the mechanical arm; through the combination of active learning, passive observing and other modes with learning training, reasonable evaluation is made, after training is completed, the evaluation result can be directly used for the next experiment, and it is achievedthat the non-human primate animal automatically controls the mechanical arm to conduct stretching and grabbing training.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the field of sports neuroscience and engineering, and relates to an automatic training auxiliary device and method for training non-human primates to control the stretching and grasping of mechanical arms, and is mainly used in neuroscience and neuroengineering oriented to motor function Research. Background technique [0002] In the research field of neuroscience and neural engineering for motor function, especially in the field of implantable brain-computer interfaces, it is a very important step to use non-human primates to replace and simulate humans for experiments. Among them, the research on the stretching and grasping of the brain-controlled robotic arm is a frontier scientific issue in the field of neuroscience and neural engineering. Training primates to learn to autonomously control the robotic arm to stretch and grasp objects in three-dimensional space is very important for neuroscience and neural engineering. Rese...

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Problems solved by technology

At present, common stretching and grasping experiments mostly use computer-simulated two-dimensional or three-dimensional grasping environments, which cannot well simulate the real three-dimensional space stretching and grasping process, and are not practical

Most of the stretching and grasping training experiments using robotic arms require animals to autonomously control the robotic arm during the whole process, which consumes a lot of mental and physical energy for experimental animals during the training process, and the training effect is not good.

In addition, judging whether the animal can correctly stretch and grasp through the robotic arm in an experiment, how to give rewards when the experiment is successful, and counting the amount of water rewarded and the accuracy of the experiment often require a lot of human resources to adjust and observe. And it is prone to misoperation, which leads to low efficiency of animal training behavior, can not make accurate evaluation of training effect, and the effect is not good

The above experimental operations are difficult to complete manually

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