Animal Rehabilitation Health Monitoring System

Abstract

The behaviour of rehabilitated raptors is unique to each individual due to their prior histories and it's difficult to make a generalization about their species' behaviors as a whole. This project seeks to develop an applicable objective quantification metric for raptor health and welfare using subjective behavioral and positional data acquired through camera and perch-imbedded vibration sensors respectively. The project outcome would include a set of sensing strategies that contain different types of sensors for different animals for behavior measurement, to collect physiological data and kinematic data from the raptor continuously, the development of a set of reasoning strategies that properly evaluates different types of raptor behavior for the overall health and well-being judgment, and have some recommendations to be able to change the environment to help the animals feel more at ease, which serves as future reference for raptors' healthcare monitoring.