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20100278374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNISING AND DETERMINING THE POSITION OF AT LEAST ONE TEAT CUP - An apparatus ( | 11-04-2010 |
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20100289649 | Arrangement and Method for Determining Positions of the Teats of A Milking Animal - An arrangement is provided for attaching teat cups to teats of a milking animal in a rotary milking system having a milking stall for housing the milking animal during milking. The arrangement comprises a three-dimensional camera configured to be directed towards the udder of the milking animal in the milking stall and to repeatedly record three-dimensional images of the udder of the milking animal in real time. The three-dimensional camera is further configured to be directed towards the teat cups located in a magazine and to repeatedly record three-dimensional images of the teat cups in real time. The arrangement also includes an image processing device configured to repeatedly detect the teats of the milking animal and determine the positions of the teats in three spatial dimensions based on said repeatedly recorded three-dimensional images of the teats. The image processing device is also configured to repeatedly detect the plurality of teat cups and determine the positions of the teat cups in three spatial dimensions based on said repeatedly recorded three-dimensional images of the teat cups located in the magazine. The arrangement also includes a control device configured to control a robot arm, based on the determined positions of the teats of the milking animal and the determined positions of the teat cups, to automatically attach at least one teat cup to at least one teat of the milking animal in the milking stall. | 11-18-2010 |
20100300362 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING A TEAT CUP - An apparatus and method for locating a teat cup for use in a milking parlour. The apparatus includes a milking stall ( | 12-02-2010 |
20100300490 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLEANING A MILKING SYSTEM - A system and method of cleaning a plurality of teat cups ( | 12-02-2010 |
20100307420 | MILKING PARLOUR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME - An apparatus for milking an animal provides a milking parlour ( | 12-09-2010 |
20110226184 | ARRANGEMENT FOR GRIPPING AT LEAST ONE TEAT CUP - An arrangement for gripping at least one teat cup (1). The arrangement includes a storing device ( | 09-22-2011 |
20110253051 | Detection Arrangement and Method - A detecting arrangement is provided for a teat cleaning device including a teat cleaning cup in which teats of milking animals are contained during cleaning thereof. The detecting arrangement comprises a measuring device provided for automatically measuring a teat related parameter in or adjacent to the teat cleaning cup at completion of a teat cleaning process, and a processing device operatively connected to the measuring device and provided for automatically comparing the measured teat related parameter with a reference value and for automatically determining whether the teat of the milking animal has been contained in the teat cleaning cup unfolded during the teat cleaning process based on the comparison. | 10-20-2011 |
20120298043 | AN ANIMAL TREATING ARRANGEMENT - An animal treating arrangement includes a carrying device beside a milking platform rotating with a velocity and having animal places housing animals. The carrying device includes a fundament, a first bearing device ( | 11-29-2012 |
20130061807 | GRIPPER, A MILKING ROBOT AND A MILKING ARRANGEMENT - A milking arrangement in includes a milking robot with a gripper ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130074775 | MILKING ROBOT, AND A MILKING ARRANGEMENT - A milking arrangement includes a milking robot ( | 03-28-2013 |
20140318581 | CAMERA CLEANING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND ROTARY MILKING SYSTEM - A camera cleaning system and method for a milking system which includes a rotating platform, plural milking stalls thereon, a robot for performing an animal related operation with respect to the animals in the milking stalls passing by the robot, and a camera in response to signals from which the robot moves, the camera cleaning system includes usage identifying arrangement to identify a future usage demand of the camera; a processing device to analyze the future usage demand of the camera to find at least one time slot when the camera is not to be used and which also occurs during certain conditions; and a cleaning arrangement arranged to clean the lens arrangement of the camera during the determined time slot. | 10-30-2014 |
20140350410 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING LAMENESS IN LIVESTOCK - A device and method for detecting lameness in a standing animal uses at least one optical imaging device coupled to processing arrangement. The optical imaging device is arranged in a position to capture at least one image showing the lower portions of at least one leg of an animal and to forward the image to the processing arrangement, which, in turn, analyses the image to determine a condition of lameness when said at least one leg is held in a raised position on or above ground level. The system is particularly suited to detecting lameness in dairy animals and can be integrated in a milking or feeding stall or with an automatic or semi-automatic milking system. | 11-27-2014 |