Development of rat training equipment without electrical stimulus

近年来，人们出现了一种称为生活方式病的健康问题。原因之一是缺乏锻炼。有必要使用小动物来研究运动的效果。这是流行的，使这些动物在屠宰厂。使动物在跑步机上跑步，施加电刺激。但这可能会使他们产生应激反应。为此，我们研制了一种无电刺激的大鼠自主运动训练装置。该设备由三部分组成。1.活的成分。2.视频录制组件。3.分析成分。分析组件利用图像处理技术。结果：运动量平均为90 m，跑步距离平均为90 m.这是比平常跑步机锻炼少。分析组件可用于人体运动研究。我们证明了从这些组件获得的运动数据的数据中估计诸如心率的生理指标是可能的。

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.