W. Phanwanich and O. Kumdee and P. Ritthipravat and Y. Wongsawat
AnimalAssisted Therapy for Persons with Disabilities Based on Canine Tail Language Interpretation via GaussianTrapezoidal Fuzzy Emotional Behavior Model
578 - 582
2011
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International Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8415
https://publications.waset.org/vol/59
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
In order to alleviate the mental and physical problems
of persons with disabilities, animalassisted therapy (AAT) is one of
the possible modalities that employs the merit of the humananimal
interaction. Nevertheless, to achieve the purpose of AAT for persons
with severe disabilities (e.g. spinal cord injury, stroke, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), realtime animal language
interpretation is desirable. Since canine behaviors can be visually
notable from its tail, this paper proposes the automatic realtime
interpretation of canine tail language for humancanine interaction in
the case of persons with severe disabilities. Canine tail language is
captured via two 3axis accelerometers. Directions and frequencies
are selected as our features of interests. The novel fuzzy rules based
on GaussianTrapezoidal model and center of gravity (COG)based
defuzzification method are proposed in order to interpret the features
into four canine emotional behaviors, i.e., agitate, happy, scare and
neutral as well as its blended emotional behaviors. The emotional
behavior model is performed in the simulated dog and has also been
evaluated in the real dog with the perfect recognition rate.
Open Science Index 59, 2011