Rodent behavior and eye-movement AI system
Client project: project fee $30,000, development time 2 months. For research use: a small camera device built around a K230 edge-AI chip that tracks several animals at once, labels behaviors such as walking and resting, and sends the results to a monitoring app, with no PC doing the vision work. A second part of the project built the fixation apparatus and the camera pipeline for eye-movement analysis.
- Client type: Research client (not named)
- Units: Working prototype (count not published)
- Project fee: $30,000
- Development time: 2 months
- Stage: Client project, completed
Overview and tech stack
- Project type
- Small devices, DIY, consumer and education electronics
- Main chip
- K230 edge-AI chip on a custom 4-layer PCB
- Vision on the device
- Multi-animal detection, identity-aware tracking, behavior recognition (walking, resting, upright)
- Eye movement
- Camera-based pupil tracking with a custom fixation apparatus and LED lighting
- Software
- Monitoring app with tracks, heatmaps, audio detection and an AI-written health report
- Enclosure
- Compact custom enclosure with antenna, USB and USB-C
What we built
- Behavior data collection and an annotation pipeline
- Behavior recognition and motion-tracking models, optimised to run on the edge chip
- Edge inference deployment and embedded firmware
- K230 4-layer PCB design
- Enclosure and mechanical design
- Eye-movement algorithm design and the fixation apparatus
- Test setup validation and the demo monitoring interface
Project figures
- Development time
- 2 months
- Project fee
- USD 30,000
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