2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of rat training equipment without electrical stimulus
| Project/Area Number |
11558001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 展開研究 |
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| Research Field |
体育学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
SUDA Kazuhiro Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Decision, Science and Technology, associate professor, 大学院・社会理工学研究科, 助教授 (70192135)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IIBOSHI Jouji DKH Co. Ltd., Department of development, researcher, 開発部, 研究員(研究職)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | Voluntary exercise equipment / without electrical stimulation / amount of exercise / running distance / large cage / recoding, analyzing component / image processing / physiological index |
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| Research Abstract |
Recently, health problem is occurring named as life style sichness. One of the causes is lacking of exercise. It is necessary to investigate the effect of exercise using small animals. It is popular to make these animals on treadmills. Making animals run on treadmill, electrical stimulus is applied. But this may make them stress reaction. So we developed a rat training equipment without electrical stimulus, a kind of voluntary exercise equipment. The equipment is consisted of three components. 1. living component. 2. video recording component. 3. analyzing component. Analyzing component takes advantage of image processing technology. As for the results, average amount of exercise, running distance was about 90 m. This is less than usual treadmill exercise. Analyzing component can be used for human exercise study. We proved it is possible to estimate physiological index such as heart rate, from the data of the movement data obtained from this components.
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