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The design and evaluation of a mobile sensor/actuator network for autonomous animal control (2007)
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| Venue: | In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (SPOTS Track |
| Citations: | 30 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Wark07thedesign,
author = {Tim Wark and Chris Crossman and Wen Hu and Ying Guo and Philip Valencia and Pavan Sikka and Peter Corke and Caroline Lee and John Henshall and Kishore Prayaga and Matt Reed§ Andrew},
title = {The design and evaluation of a mobile sensor/actuator network for autonomous animal control},
booktitle = {In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (SPOTS Track},
year = {2007}
}
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Abstract
This paper investigates a mobile, wireless sensor/actuator network application for use in the cattle breeding industry. Our goal is to prevent fighting between bulls in on-farm breeding paddocks by autonomously applying appropriate stimuli when one bull approaches another bull. This is an important application because fighting between high-value animals such as bulls during breeding seasons causes significant financial loss to producers. Furthermore, there are significant challenges in this type of application be-cause it requires dynamic animal state estimation, real-time actuation and efficient mobile wireless transmissions. We designed and implemented an animal state estimation algorithm based on a state-machine mechanism for each an-imal. Autonomous actuation is performed based on the esti-mated states of an animal relative to other animals. A sim-ple, yet effective, wireless communication model has been proposed and implemented to achieve high delivery rates in mobile environments. We evaluated the performance of our design by both simulations and field experiments, which demonstrated the effectiveness of our autonomous animal control system.
Keyphrases
mobile sensor actuator network autonomous animal control wireless communication model animal state estimation algorithm significant financial loss important application significant challenge autonomous actuation high-value animal high delivery rate autonomous animal control system efficient mobile wireless transmission dynamic animal state estimation application be-cause field experiment mobile environment on-farm breeding paddock state-machine mechanism esti-mated state wireless sensor actuator network application appropriate stimulus animal relative real-time actuation
