&amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Robotics for Poultry House Management&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;

Usher, Colin; Daley, Wayne; Joffe, Benjamin; Muni, Aneri

doi:10.13031/aim.201701103

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“…However, mobile robots are under-researched in poultry applications, especially those related to broiler chicken breeding. Works focused on poultry farms have been mainly intended for egg collection robotic systems, as in [48][49][50]. Among the challenges this type of application faces are autonomous navigation, obstacle avoidance, egg detection using image recognition, and sorting eggs without damaging them.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mobile Robot + IoT: Project of Sustainable Technology for Sanitizing Broiler Poultry Litter

Kunz Cechinel,

Soares,

Pfleger

et al. 2024

Sensors

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The traditional aviary decontamination process involves farmers applying pesticides to the aviary’s ground. These agricultural defenses are easily dispersed in the air, making the farmers susceptible to chronic diseases related to recurrent exposure. Industry 5.0 raises new pillars of research and innovation in transitioning to more sustainable, human-centric, and resilient companies. Based on these concepts, this paper presents a new aviary decontamination process that uses IoT and a robotic platform coupled with ozonizer (O3) and ultraviolet light (UVL). These clean technologies can successfully decontaminate poultry farms against pathogenic microorganisms, insects, and mites. Also, they can degrade toxic compounds used to control living organisms. This new decontamination process uses physicochemical information from the poultry litter through sensors installed in the environment, which allows accurate and safe disinfection. Different experimental tests were conducted to construct the system. First, tests related to measuring soil moisture, temperature, and pH were carried out, establishing the range of use and the confidence interval of the measurements. The robot’s navigation uses a back-and-forth motion that parallels the aviary’s longest side because it reduces the number of turns, reducing energy consumption. This task becomes more accessible because of the aviaries’ standardized geometry. Furthermore, the prototype was tested in a real aviary to confirm the innovation, safety, and effectiveness of the proposal. Tests have shown that the UV + ozone combination is sufficient to disinfect this environment.

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Section: Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Robot + IoT: Project of Sustainable Technology for Sanitizing Broiler Poultry Litter

Kunz Cechinel,

Soares,

Pfleger

et al. 2024

Sensors

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“…Poultry houses require daily monitoring to ensure animal health and proper house operation [28] . Maintaining the health and welfare status of livestock at optimal levels has traditionally been a main concern of farmers, and more recently, consumers [28] . Today more and more are engaged in the development of robotic monitoring in livestock and poultry farming (Table 3).…”

Section: Monitoring Robots In Livestock and Poultry Farming And Aquaculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second generation [95] Figure 6 Pollinating end-effectors of BrambleBee There is a growing interest in using automatic floor egg collection in the modern animal-friendly loose housing systems adopted for laying hens [113] . Bastiaan, Usher, Chang, et al have developed various prototypes of egg collection robots, some of them can realize egg picking and classification at the same time [28] . Poultrybot is a system in current development for automated floor-egg collection, in experiments, 46% of over 300 eggs were collected successfully [28,[113][114][115][116][117] .…”

Section: Selective Working Robots In Livestock and Poultry Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bastiaan, Usher, Chang, et al have developed various prototypes of egg collection robots, some of them can realize egg picking and classification at the same time [28] . Poultrybot is a system in current development for automated floor-egg collection, in experiments, 46% of over 300 eggs were collected successfully [28,[113][114][115][116][117] . The system developed by Joffe et al was retrofitted with a Microsoft Kinect 3D camera and a commercially available "indoor GPS" system, and the robust testing of the egg picking algorithms yielded a success rate of 91.6% [28,117] .…”

Section: Selective Working Robots In Livestock and Poultry Farmingmentioning

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Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Jin¹,

Liu²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

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In the face of the contradiction between the increasing demand for agricultural products and the sharp reduction of agricultural resources and labor force, agricultural robot technology is developing explosively on the basis of decades of technical and industrial exploration. In view of the complexity and particularity of the development of agricultural robot technology, it is of great value to summarize its development characteristics and make reasonable judgments on its development trend. In this paper, the type of agricultural robot systems was first discussed. From the classification of agricultural robot systems, the development of main types of monitoring robots, non-selective and selective working robots for crop farming, livestock and poultry farming and aquaculture were introduced in detail. Then the scientific research, core technology, and commercialization of different types of agricultural robots were summarized. It is believed that navigation in complex agricultural environments, damage-free robot-crop interaction, and agronomy-robot fusion have high scientific value and significance to promote the revolutionary advances in agricultural robot technology. The characteristics of inter-discipline between agricultural robot technology and new materials, artificial intelligence, bionics, agronomy are research focus. The fast damage-free operation, autonomous navigation for complex environments, target detection for complex backgrounds, and special design for agricultural robots are considered to be the key technology of agricultural robot development, and the development path is given. Finally, robot-crop interaction simulation, big data support, and artificial intelligence are regarded as paths to realize the breakthrough of key agricultural robot technologies. The summary and prospect of this paper are of positive significance to promote the overall development of agricultural robot technology.

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“…After testing a variety of path-planning methods, the authors showed that the robot can move autonomously and gather eggs [ 21 ]. Usher et al [ 22 ] used an ultrasonic positioning method to locate their GohBot in an indoor environment, using depth data from Microsoft Kinect to design path planning and obstacle avoidance routines. Their results indicated that the GohBot can move automatically while avoiding chickens.…”

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confidence: 99%

Visual Guidance and Egg Collection Scheme for a Smart Poultry Robot for Free-Range Farms

Chang

Xie

Wang

2020

Sensors

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Free-range chicken farming allows egg-laying hens to move freely through their environment and perform their natural behavior, including laying her eggs. However, it takes time to gather these eggs manually, giving rise to high labor costs. This study proposes a smart mobile robot for poultry farms that can recognize eggs of two different colors on free-range farms. The robot can also pick up and sort eggs without damaging them. An egg feature extraction method with automatic thresholding is employed to detect both white and brown eggs, and a behavior-based navigation method is applied to allow the robot to reach the eggs while avoiding obstacles. The robot can move towards the position of each egg via visual tracking. Once the egg is within the collection area of the robot, it is gathered, sorted and stored in the tank inside the robot. Experiments are carried out in an outdoor field of size 5 m × 5 m under different climatic conditions, and the results showed that the average egg recognition rate is between 94.7% and 97.6%. The proposed mobile poultry robot is low in production cost and simple in operation. It can provide chicken farmers with automatic egg gathering on free-range farms.

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<i>Robotics for Poultry House Management</i>

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Mobile Robot + IoT: Project of Sustainable Technology for Sanitizing Broiler Poultry Litter

Mobile Robot + IoT: Project of Sustainable Technology for Sanitizing Broiler Poultry Litter

Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Visual Guidance and Egg Collection Scheme for a Smart Poultry Robot for Free-Range Farms

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