49 results about "Animal locomotion" patented technology

A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in motion. For example, the leg gestures generated when a person runs are different than when a person walks. The system described here can identify such differences and categorize these behaviors. Gestures, as previously defined, are motions generated by humans, animals, or machines. Where in the previous patent only one gesture was recognized at a time, in this system, multiple gestures on a body (or bodies) are recognized simultaneously and used in determining behaviors. If multiple bodies are tracked by the system, then overall formations and behaviors (such as military goals) can be determined.

A system and method are provided for monitoring the movement of an animal. An animal transceiver unit is placed on the animal for transmitting and receiving signals. A base transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving signals relative to the animal transceiver unit is operated to monitor relative movement of the animal transceiver unit and the base transceiver unit. An indication of the relative distance between the base transceiver unit and the animal transceiver unit is provided in response to signal communication between the animal and base transceiver units.

A system and method are provided for monitoring the movement of an animal. An animal transceiver unit is placed on the animal for transmitting and receiving signals. A base transceiver unit for transmitting and receiving signals relative to the animal transceiver unit is operated to monitor relative movement of the animal transceiver unit and the base transceiver unit. An indication of the relative distance between the base transceiver unit and the animal transceiver unit is provided in response to signal communication between the animal and base transceiver units.

An animal exercise wheel is illuminated by LEDs connected to a battery via a reed switch. A magnet actuates the reed switch when an animal begins to rotate the wheel. The LEDs flash with the frequency of rotation of the animal wheel or continuously. As long as the wheel rotates, the magnet continues to actuate the reed switch, which resets a counter. When the wheel stops and the reed switch is no longer actuated, the counter counts a predetermined time, and terminates the illumination of the LEDs.

A transmitter for driving a perimeter wire of an animal control system, in which a collar is attached to an animal, and the collar has a signal receiver configured to receive signals outputted to the perimeter wire by the transmitter. The collar is adapted to trigger a control stimulus responsive to detecting a pre-determined signal pattern received at the signal receiver. Different collars have different pre-determined signal patterns. The transmitter has a user interface allowing the transmitter to be configured to output the pre-determined signal pattern for a particular collar. In one aspect, the transmitter monitors current in the wire and adjusts signal magnitude driving the wire and achieves more consistent stimulus activation and detects system abnormalities. Data defining patterns for the different signal types can be stored in a database and be assembled into an appropriate pattern for a particular collar by a microprocessor.

Electronic components, including a transceiver (220) for two-way wireless communications, are carried by a freely roaming animal (190) such as a rat. Electrodes are implanted in the brain of the animal to provide cues and rewards to the animal to achieved desired behaviors, including controlling the direction and speed of movement of the animal, and training the animal to recognize odors. Network interface components (265) allow a network of the animals to work together. Sensors (225, 230, 235, 245, 255, 260) carried by the animal provide information to a remote base station regarding, e.g., heading and location. Chemical or gas sensors, along with a video camera and a microphone provide information regarding an environment of the animal. The animal can search for people buried in rubble piles, and detect explosives, chemicals or other dangerous materials. A vehicle (500) for deploying the animal is also provided.

An animal exercise wheel is illuminated by LEDs connected to a battery via a reed switch. A magnet actuates the reed switch when an animal begins to rotate the wheel. The LEDs flash with the frequency of rotation of the animal wheel or continuously. As long as the wheel rotates, the magnet continues to actuate the reed switch, which resets a counter. When the wheel stops and the reed switch is no longer actuated, the counter counts a predetermined time, and terminates the illumination of the LEDs.

The present invention provides a device to make use of an overturning cage to measure the exercise capacity of the animals. The device is composed of the overturning cage, a frame, a control system and a power system; when in use, the animals are placed in the turning cage; the cage body can overturn for 180 degrees at any designated time, so as to overturn the animals in the cage to be upward of the ventral surface. The present invention uses the capacity of self-correcting posture of the animals to measure the exercise capacity. The device can measure the exercise capacity of the animals continuously without artificial intervention, compared with the conventional turning cages, the present invention has clear judgment standard, and the behaviors of the animals are less affected by the environmental factors, thus having obvious advantages. The present invention can be used in the teaching and research of the pharmacology and toxicology.

The invention provides a vibration test and method for adhesion motion on an elastic plane under simulated microgravity and belongs to the field of robots. The system comprises a platform base (10), asupport scale rod (14), a support top plate (17), a connection plate (13), an elastic plate (9), an X-direction movement sliding rail groove (15), an X-direction movement pair, Z-direction movement sliding rail grooves (19), Z-direction movement sliding rail blocks (20), a Z-direction moving pair between the Z-direction movement sliding rail grooves (19) and Z-direction movement sliding rail blocks (20), fixed pulleys (21), an upper computer wireless communication module (2), a computer control terminal (3), a micro inertial navigation module (8), a sensor data acquisition system (18), a lower computer wireless communication module (25). According to the system, a four-legged adherent animal motion database under various sports conditions can be established, the movement gait of a four-legged adherent animal in different creep speeds is imitated, and leg robot body and tail bionic movement adhesion crawling experiments under the simulated microgravity are developed.

A herd management system for monitoring and managing the movements of animals within a herd comprises a user interface for defining one or more virtual fences for each to comprise a paddock, a plurality of wireless tags affixed to the monitored animals, and a network server for managing communications between the user interface and wireless communication with the tags. The tags include devices for stimulating the animal to move as desired by the herd management system, including staying within a paddock or moving from one paddock to another as guided by the system.

The invention relates to an animal motion measurement method, in particular to a method for measuring motion ability of fruit flies. The technical scheme of the invention comprises the following steps that: (1) the fruit flies are put in a container; (2) the container in which the fruit flies are put does up-and-down movement according to a certain frequency, so that the container is lifted to a certain height, and then, the container does downward movement of a freely-falling body; (3) the container is marked with height scales; and (4) the container does the up-and-down movement with a certain frequency, then after some time, the number of the fruit flies at different height stages is recorded. By adopting the method of the invention, the fruit flies can move according to own inverse gravity climbing characteristic through the up-and-to movement, the movement time and the frequency are controllable, the operation is simple, the observation is intuitive, and a molecular mechanism related to aging can be researched fast and conveniently at a large scale.

The present invention relates to decoys for simulating the movement of animals on land, air, or water. The invention includes a small, enclosed, and portable unit containing a motor, a rechargeable power supply, a timing control mechanism, and a spool attached to a line. The line extends from the unit and attaches to one or more animal decoys and, at the end, to an anchoring mechanism (e.g., an anchor placed in the water or a tether attached to a tree or other stationary support). The anchoring mechanism preferably is attached to the line via a bungee cord or other flexible connection that exhibits elasticity. The preferred embodiment of the invention includes four main parts: (1) a string portion, which extends from an anchor system to a mechanical unit; (2) one or more animal decoys attached to the string portion; (3) an anchor assembly attached to one end of the string assembly for creating tension in the string assembly and securing its position; and (4) a mechanical unit containing a low-power, motorized spool assembly, a rechargeable power supply, a spool, and a timing mechanism for repeatedly winding and releasing the string portion.

A system for managing scouting images, including a scouting camera configured to record and store images of subjects at a particular location and an image management device which has a processor that creates a predictive statement based on image content of the images stored on the scouting camera or copies thereof and a display conveying the predictive statement to a user, wherein the predictive statement indicates a portion of a future time period that subjects are most likely to be at the particular location as compared to remaining portions of the future time period.

A method for training a locomotion controller of a robotic animal comprising obtaining a motion data of a reference animal, an environmental parameter, and a disturbance parameter; generating a plurality of primitive distributions and a first primitive influence according to the motion data by a policy network; selecting a current state of the reference animal from the motion data and set an adapting state of the reference animal; generating a second primitive influence, by the policy network, according to the current state, the adapting state, and the plurality of primitive distributions at least; and training the policy network according to a result determined by a discriminator according to the first primitive influence and the second primitive influence.

A system, apparatus, and / or method of determining a condition of an animal is provided. Movement data of the animal for a predetermined time period may be received. The movement data may include at least one of an acceleration and / or velocity of the animal, a distance traveled by the animal, a location of the animal, and / or steps taken by the animal. A gait of the animal may be determined for the predetermined time period based on the movement data of the animal. A duration and / or a frequency of the gait of the animal may be determined. An activity level of the animal for the predetermined time period may be determined based on at least one of the duration or the frequency of the gait of the animal. The activity level of the animal may be caused to be displayed via a display device.

An animal exercise device is described in the form a rotating wheel, generally cylindrical in form, open on one face for an animal to enter and exit, and solidly closed on the other face, which also provides a bearing for rotation. The wall and closed face are solid to avoid injury to an animal. The wheel's axis of rotation is at an angle from horizontal. The inside surface of the wall comprises spaced ridges for gripping by the animal's toes or feet. A contrasting marking on the outside surface of the wall aids vision-based rotation measurement. Embodiments are supported solely through the bearing and have no rotation drive other than use by an animal. Methods of use include automated measurement, using equipment external to the cage, of animal health and use in a multihoused cage where unique animal ID is associated with wheel use.

The invention discloses a patrol robot recognizable fence which comprises four stand columns, and rotating pipes are rotationally mounted on the opposite sides of a pair of adjacent stand columns from top to bottom. Animals wanting to enter the fence can be blocked through a first transverse rod and a second transverse rod which can rotate, so that the animals slide down; and when the animal wants to enter the fence, the rotation of a first cross rod and a second cross rod is utilized to cooperate with a piston assembly, a liquid supply assembly, a first pipe body and a valve body, so that the movement path of the animal outside the fence can be disinfected, the animal can be further warned, the animal is prevented from entering the fence, and the safety of the animal is improved. Meanwhile, the rod body can generate vibration to generate knocking sound, so that animals can be frightened, the protection effect is further improved, meanwhile, the robot can recognize the fence, the robot can be prevented from colliding with the fence to stop patrolling, and the device is worthy of application and popularization.

The invention discloses a medicated bath device for preventing hoof diseases for livestock. The medicated bath device structurally comprises a front body baffle plate, a hoof buckling end plate, a medicated bath roller box groove, a bottom lining plate, an inclined frame plate and a base cushion block. By virtue of the match of the hoof buckling end plate and the medicated bath roller box groove,animal joints are locked at the top ends of hoofs through catching groove rings and end face plates to prevent the hoofs from moving randomly to affect soaking of hoofs by medicinal liquid, then medicated bath is conducted on the hoofs in a frame groove body through the hoofs, the hoofs of the animals can tread conveniently through inclined half-pace pedal blocks, and the hoofs of the four limbs are subjected to liquid medicine prevention nursing operation through cotton pad wheel paddle discs and brush wheel bodies; and the periodic medicated bath effectively ensures the healthy and strong development of animal hoofs in animal husbandry, efficiently supports the body to form the stability and health effect of the whole animal movement, and improves the maintenance operation effect of thewhole subsequent hoof covering and pressing part.

A system, apparatus, and / or method of identifying an activity of an animal. The activity may include the animal drinking, eating, urination, or defecating. Motion data of a first animal may be received, for example, via a sensor. Predetermined signatures of one or more second animals may be received. The predetermined signatures of the one or more second animals may be associated with one or more activities of the one or more second animals. A signature of an activity of the first animal may be determined based on the motion data of the first animal. Based on the signature of the activity of the first animal and the predetermined signatures of the second animal, the activity of the first animal may be identified. The identified activity of the first animal may be displayed via a display device.

The invention relates to a data processing method and system for animal motion information statistics, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the first position information of a target animal at a first moment through the first image information collected at the first moment; acquiring second position information of the target animal at a second moment through second image information acquired at the second moment; acquiring position change information of the target animal according to the first position information and the second position information; determining motion state information of the target animal according to the first moment, the second moment and the position change information; and analyzing according to the first moment, the second moment and the motion state information to obtain motion information of the target animal. The motion information of the animal is counted through computer vision, electronic tracking equipment does not need to be installed on the animal, the monitoring cost can be effectively reduced, and damage to the animal when the electronic tracking equipment is installed can be effectively avoided.

The invention discloses a machinery tail applying the bionics principle and belongs to the automatic control technology field. According to the machinery tail, the bionics principle is applied to modern life, the machinery tail is abstracted from a tail of an animal having great importance to self balance, the machinery tail is utilized to regulate an automatic control system to improve integral stability of the automatic control system, so a motion carrier applying the machinery tail can be adjusted and controlled under the limit condition, and response time of the system for recovery to a balance state can be greatly shortened. The motion carrier is equipped with the machinery tail, so balance of the motion carrier is realized through utilizing the machinery tail to do up and down and left and right motions. Stability of the motion carrier in a motion process can be greatly improved, mechanical vibration can be reduced. The bionic tail structure is utilized to balance the motion carrier to greatly improve integral system robustness and controllability, and the machinery tail is easy to mount, has a simple structure and is convenient to control.

The invention discloses an animal simulation movement mechanical device which comprises a base and further comprises an animal model located above the base, and a linkage mechanism located on the inner side of the base. The linkage mechanism comprises a swing frame, the swing frame is composed of a vertical rod and a transverse rod, the transverse rod is located on the inner side of the animal model, two parallel leg rods are installed in the transverse rod, the leg rods are driven by a transmission shaft, and a cam is installed at the bottom of the vertical rod. By designing the device, the animal model is driven to move through cooperation of the swing rod and the cam, the leg rods can be driven to rotate through swing of the swing rod in the movement process, accordingly, swing of the leg rods and legs is achieved, the structure is simple, animal movement characteristics can be restored as much as possible, interestingness is increased, and meanwhile, the user can clearly know the characteristics of animal movement.

The invention belongs to the technical field of animal behavioristics, and particularly relates to a method for measuring behavior parameters of a moving animal. Comprising the following steps: step 1, continuously shooting a moving animal to obtain position pictures of the moving animal at different time points; 2, generating a delay image according to the obtained position pictures of the moving animal at different time points, and drawing a movement track of the moving animal; 3, obtaining the movement speed of the moving animal in the delay image according to the movement track; 4, actual motion parameters of the moving animal in the motion container are obtained according to the proportion of the delay image time and the continuous shooting time of the moving animal, and a method for calculating the actual motion parameters of the moving animal in the motion container in the step 4 comprises the steps that a delay coefficient between the delay image and the actual animal motion image is obtained, and the actual motion parameters of the moving animal in the motion container are obtained; and on the basis of the delay image, acquiring the movement speed of the animal in the delay image, and calculating the product of the delay coefficient and the conveying speed in the delay image, namely the actual operation speed of the animal.

The invention provides a feeding box for a low-temperature environment animal motion experiment. The feeding box for the low-temperature environment animal motion experiment comprises a box body and an oxygen supply mechanism; the oxygen supply mechanism is arranged on the box body, the oxygen supply mechanism comprises an oxygen bottle, the oxygen bottle is fixedly installed at one side of the box body, an air outlet pipe is fixedly installed at one side of the oxygen bottle, the air outlet pipe extends into the box body and is fixedly connected with the box body, and an electronic valve is fixedly installed in the air outlet pipe; and an oxygen concentration sensor is fixedly mounted on the inner wall of one side of the box body. According to the feeding box for the low-temperature environment animal motion experiment, the oxygen concentration in the box body is kept at a proper numerical value all the time by arranging the oxygen supply mechanism, so that animal survival is guaranteed, and animal feeding is facilitated; and animal excrement can be conveniently collected and cleaned by arranging a collecting mechanism, and therefore the feeding box is more convenient to use.

The invention provides an animal positioning collar. The animal positioning collar is characterized in that one end of the cantilever beam of a composite vibration-thermoelectric power generation module is fixedly connected with a support seat, and the other end of the cantilever beam extends horizontally to form a free end; a mass block is fixed at the free end of the cantilever beam; a piezoelectric plate is fixed to the upper surface of the cantilever beam, and an upper film electrode and a lower film electrode are respectively located on the upper surface and the lower surface of the piezoelectric plate; heat dissipation plates are fixed to the upper surface of the upper film electrode; the support seat has a curve camber matched with the neck skin of an animal to allow the composite vibration-thermoelectric power generation module to attach to the neck skin of the animal; the animal moves to allow the cantilever beam to vibrate, the piezoelectric plate senses the vibration of thecantilever beam to generate charges, and the charges are guided out through the film electrodes; the lower surface of the piezoelectric plate receives skin heat conducted from the body of the animal,the heat dissipation plates are arranged on the upper surface of the upper film electrode, and accordingly temperature change on the piezoelectric plate is achieved, and charges are generated throughthe pyroelectric effect and guided out through film electrode leads to charge a power supply.

The present invention provides a holding area (110) and method (500) executed in a holding area (110) arranged at a milking parlour (120) of a farm. A location system (200) is arranged at the holdingarea (110), and is configured to monitor animal movements in at least two directions. The location system (200) comprises a control unit (210), a tag (220), and transceivers (230a, 230b, 230c), configured to detect signals emitted by the tag (220), and communicate information with the control unit (210). The method (500) comprises determining (501) arrival time of the animal (100) and / or animal movement;identifying (502) the animal (100); monitoring (503) a waiting time of the animal (100) in the holding area (110) and / or animal movements of the animal (100); comparing (509) the waiting timeand / or animal movements with a respective reference threshold; and triggering (510) an action, when the reference threshold is exceeded.

The invention provides a convenient-to-wear electronic tag device for livestock breeding, and relates to the technical field of electronic tag devices, the convenient-to-wear electronic tag device comprises a belt A and a belt B. One side of the belt A is fixedly provided with a Velcro A, and one side of the belt B is fixedly provided with a Velcro B. According to the electronic tag, by arranging the belt A, the belt B, the hook-and-loop fastener A, the silica gel strip and the hook-and-loop fastener B, the hook-and-loop fastener A and the hook-and-loop fastener B are attached together, so that the electronic tag can be fixed to the body of an animal, operation is easy, operation of workers is facilitated, the working efficiency can be improved, the material is soft, damage to the body of the animal is avoided, and protectiveness to the animal is improved; and meanwhile, the silica gel strip can enable the belt and the animal to be attached more tightly, the friction force between the animal and the belt is increased, the electronic tag device is prevented from slipping off due to animal movement, the electronic tag device is prevented from being lost or damaged, and the stability of the electronic tag device is improved.