A Smart Wirelessly Powered Homecage for Long-Term High-Throughput Behavioral Experiments

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4905-4916

  Lee, Byunghun ^a   Kiani, Mehdi ^b   Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic tracking; Closed loop inductive power transmission; EnerCage; homecage; implantable medical devices; Kinect; radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BALLOONS; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEATING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; NEUROLOGY; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO TRANSMISSION; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATIC TRACKING; CLOSED LOOPS; ENERCAGE; HOMECAGE; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; KINECT;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84937468227     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2430859     Document Type: Article

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