A smart cage for behavioral experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects

Peter McMenamin; Uei Ming Jow; Mehdi Kiani; Joseph R. Manns; Maysam Ghovanloo

doi:10.1109/NER.2013.6696101

A smart cage for behavioral experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects

Peter McMenamin, Uei Ming Jow, Mehdi Kiani, Joseph R. Manns, Maysam Ghovanloo

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Abstract

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).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013
Pages	985-988
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2013.6696101
State	Published - Dec 1 2013
Event	2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Nov 6 2013 → Nov 8 2013

Publication series

Name	International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER
ISSN (Print)	1948-3546
ISSN (Electronic)	1948-3554

Other

Other	2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013
Country	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	11/6/13 → 11/8/13

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Artificial Intelligence
Mechanical Engineering

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McMenamin, P, Jow, UM, Kiani, M, Manns, JR & Ghovanloo, M 2013, A smart cage for behavioral experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects. in 2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013., 6696101, International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER, pp. 985-988, 2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013, San Diego, CA, United States, 11/6/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2013.6696101

A smart cage for behavioral experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects. / McMenamin, Peter; Jow, Uei Ming; Kiani, Mehdi; Manns, Joseph R.; Ghovanloo, Maysam.

2013 6th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2013. 2013. p. 985-988 6696101 (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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