We used a 50Hz sampling frequency to collect tri-axle acceleration from the cows. For the traditional Machine learning approach, we segmented the data to calculate features, selected the important features, and applied machine learning algorithms for classification. We compared the performance of various models and found a robust model with relatively low computation and high accuracy. For the deep learning approach, we designed an end-to-end trainable Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to predict activities for given segments, applied distillation, and quantization to reduce model size. In addition to the fixed window
size approach, we used CNN to predict dense labels that each data point has an individual label, inspired by semantic segmentation. In this way, we could have a more precise measurement for the composition of activities. Summarily, physically monitoring the well-being of crowded animals is labor-intensive, so we proposed a solution for timely and efficient
measuring of cattle’s daily activities using wearable sensors and machine learning models. / M.S. / Animal agriculture has intensified over the past several decades, and animals are managed increasingly as large groups. This group-based management has significantly increased productivity. However, animals are often located remotely on large expanses of pasture, which makes continuous monitoring of daily activities to assess animal health and well-being labor-intensive and challenging [37]. Remote monitoring of animal activities with wireless sensor nodes integrated with machine learning algorithms is a promising solution. The machine learning models will predict the activities of given accelerometer segments, and the pre-dicted result will be uploaded to the cloud. The challenges would be the limitation in power consumption and computation. To propose a precise measurement of individual cattle in the herd, we experimented with several different types of machine learning methods with different advantages and drawbacks in performance and efficiency.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/109985 |
| Date | 15 April 2022 |
| Creators | Zhao, Zhuqing |
| Contributors | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ha, Sook Shin, Yu, Guoqiang, Ha, Dong Sam |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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