Method and control circuitry for operating an autonomous feed robot at a feed table in a livestock area
AssigneeDeLaval Holding AB
InventorsMaxime Detraversay, Jean-Jacques Dreier, Szymon Karwacki, Ilka Klaas
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Abstract
A method for operating an autonomous feed robot at a feed table in a livestock area, in which one or more stationary cameras are disposed to monitor the feed table, includes obtaining one or more images captured using the one or more stationary cameras and indicative of a distribution of feed on the feed table and controlling the operation of the autonomous feed robot based on the distribution of feed indicated by the one or more images. The disclosure also relates to control circuitry, an autonomous feed robot, and a computer program for performing the method.
Claims18
A method for operating an autonomous feed robot at a feed table in a livestock area, one or more stationary arranged cameras disposed in the livestock area to monitor the feed table, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more images captured using the one or more stationary arranged cameras, the one or more obtained images being indicative of a distribution of feed across the feed table,
- wherein the distribution of the feed is a lateral distribution in a direction extending away from animals located at the feed table and the lateral distribution of the feed is determined based on a visual contrast, visual shape, or visual structure of feed detected in the obtained one or more images;
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- controlling an operation of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images, wherein the controlling comprises adjusting a trajectory of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images.
Control circuitry for operating an autonomous feed robot at a feed table in a livestock area, one or more stationary arranged cameras disposed in relation to the feed table to monitor at least a part of the feed table, wherein the control circuitry is configured to:
- obtain, using the one or more arranged stationary cameras, one or more images captured using the one or more stationary arranged cameras, the one or more obtained images being indicative of a distribution of feed across the feed table, wherein the distribution is a lateral distribution in a direction extending away from animals located at the feed table, wherein the lateral distribution of the feed is determined based on a visual contrast, visual shape, or visual structure of feed detected in the obtained one or more images and
- control an operation of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images, wherein the control comprises adjusting a trajectory of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having loaded thereon a computer program comprising instructions which, when the program is executed by a computer, cause the computer to carry out a method for operating an autonomous feed robot at a feed table in a livestock area, using one or more stationary arranged cameras disposed in the livestock area to monitor the feed table, the method comprising:
- obtaining one or more images captured using the one or more stationary arranged cameras, the one or more obtained images being indicative of a distribution of feed across the feed table,
- wherein the distribution of the feed is a lateral distribution in a direction extending away from animals located at the feed table and the lateral distribution of the feed is determined based on a visual contrast, visual shape, or visual structure of feed detected in the obtained one or more images;
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- controlling an operation of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images, wherein the controlling comprises adjusting a trajectory of the autonomous feed robot based on the lateral distribution of feed indicated by the one or more obtained images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.