TY - GEN
T1 - A smart cage for behavioral experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects
AU - McMenamin, Peter
AU - Jow, Uei Ming
AU - Kiani, Mehdi
AU - Manns, Joseph R.
AU - Ghovanloo, Maysam
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - The EnerCage system is designed to enable electrophysiology experiments of any duration in experimental arenas of any size. Optimized overlapping planar spiral coils (PSCs) provide closed-loop wireless power and data to a mobile unit on a small, freely behaving animal subject. The system tracks the location of the mobile unit with an array of 3-axis magnetic sensors and only activates the closest PSC, thereby reducing power dissipation and heat within the cage. A control algorithm collects data from all the sensors, organizes it by physical location, and systematically compares the magnitudes of each to two thresholds to determine the location of a small magnetic tracer embedded in the mobile unit. An in vivo experiment was conducted for one hour using a 1.03 × 0.9 m2 EnerCage prototype in a physiology lab, where the system was able to continuously deliver 20 mW to a dummy load and maintain a steady 4V supply on the rat headstage (mobile unit).
AB - The EnerCage system is designed to enable electrophysiology experiments of any duration in experimental arenas of any size. Optimized overlapping planar spiral coils (PSCs) provide closed-loop wireless power and data to a mobile unit on a small, freely behaving animal subject. The system tracks the location of the mobile unit with an array of 3-axis magnetic sensors and only activates the closest PSC, thereby reducing power dissipation and heat within the cage. A control algorithm collects data from all the sensors, organizes it by physical location, and systematically compares the magnitudes of each to two thresholds to determine the location of a small magnetic tracer embedded in the mobile unit. An in vivo experiment was conducted for one hour using a 1.03 × 0.9 m2 EnerCage prototype in a physiology lab, where the system was able to continuously deliver 20 mW to a dummy load and maintain a steady 4V supply on the rat headstage (mobile unit).
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U2 - 10.1109/NER.2013.6696101
DO - 10.1109/NER.2013.6696101
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897707912
SN - 9781467319690
T3 - International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER
SP - 985
EP - 988
BT - 2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013
T2 - 2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013
Y2 - 6 November 2013 through 8 November 2013
ER -