Authors: Daniel Prado Campos, Paulo José Abatti, Fabio Luiz Bertotti, André Luís Finkler da Silveira, João Ari Gualberto Hill

Venue: 2016 IEEE 7th Latin American Symposium on Circuits & Systems (LASCAS)

Type: Publication

Abstract: Monitoring grazing ruminants ingestive behaviour has applications in measuring animal welfare, animal diseases detection and animal production system modelling. Current monitoring methods are mostly laborious, time expensive or invasive. In this work, it is presented a non-invasive method for chewing activity identification on goats by masseter muscle surface Electromyography (sEMG). Short-term chewing/resting time and chewing count were successfully predicted on male goats comparing to visual observation.

DOI: 10.1109/lascas.2016.7451062