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=Motivation for an autonomous milking ongoing robot (AMOR)=
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==Motivation for an autonomous milking ongoing robot (AMOR)==
 
An autonomous system results in the following dis-/advantages:
 
An autonomous system results in the following dis-/advantages:
 
* + Indepence (no more need to be there to milk morning and evening, 7days/week)
 
* + Indepence (no more need to be there to milk morning and evening, 7days/week)
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* ... and several others.
 
* ... and several others.
  
=Separation in Subproblems & Technological Difficulties =
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== High Level Overview ==
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[[File:AMOR_0_1_schematic_HighLevel.svg|alt=AMOR High Level schematic|Under constant change.]]
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==Separation in Subproblems & Technological Difficulties ==
 
Our AMOR consists of several submodules:
 
Our AMOR consists of several submodules:
 
* MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION
 
* MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION
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=DETAILS=
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==REVISIONS & POWER SYSTEM==
http://howto.dragontale.de/?id=blog&blogcat=dIY_u_engineering_u_science
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Power system 100 kW inverter is planned for late August or early September, the AMOR power system & basic prototype for Autumn.
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[http://howto.dragontale.de/?id=blog&blogcat=dIY_u_engineering_u_science]
  
  
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[[Category: Robotik]]
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[[Category: Landwirtschaft]] [[Category: Automatisierung]] [[Category: Robotik]] [[Category: Hardware]] [[:Category: -OSEG 400 - Bereich Technologie]]

Version vom 6. Juli 2013, 08:38 Uhr

Motivation for an autonomous milking ongoing robot (AMOR)

An autonomous system results in the following dis-/advantages:

  • + Indepence (no more need to be there to milk morning and evening, 7days/week)
  • - Machine service increases
  • + Technical knowledge increases, hence perhaps some other good robot ideas may evolve.
  • + Cows/Goats/Sheep can decide themselves when to get milked.
  • + Concentrated feed can be delivered automatically and according to milk delivered.
  • - Animals' possible illness not realized early enough. => Action taken too late. => Animal could die.
  • - Gathering at Milking robot leaves behind a lot of unusable muddy terrain at entrance (doors in general).
  • - Higher complexity in separation of milk for calves, though of course possible.
  • + Driving out and in of cattle no longer necessary as animals can get milked outside.
  • + Less material required (much shorter vacuum and milk tubes as compared to conventional non-automated distributed [at cow/goat..] milking)
  • ... and several others.


An ongoing system results in the following (dis-)advantages:

  • - Higher complexity.
  • + Independance of any external supplies.
   ** Water (difficult)
   ** Power
   ** Food (difficult)
  • - Redundancy of susceptible subsystems (Electronics, in general: The more complex the system the higher the vulnerability).
  • + Less cabling, water pipe laying and bundled maintenance (as you can wait for enough minor errors to accumulate before taking the system apart).
  • ... and several others.


High Level Overview

Under constant change.


Separation in Subproblems & Technological Difficulties

Our AMOR consists of several submodules:

  • MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION
    • - Difficult to be robust, lightweight (for truck to lift) & cheap the same time.
    • + Rain serves as a water supply and natural (ecologic) washing.
  • VACUUM SYSTEM
    • - Difficult to be flexible in frequency (provide user settings) and keep it simple at the same time.
    • + Could be used for several other functionality than milking (doors, ...). => No hydraulics needed.
    • Note: As the robotic manipulator should be flexible anyway, compressible air/vacuum could serve this purpose, too - stays the problem of vulnerability to leakage.
    • Vacuum pumps.
  • STORAGE CONSTRUCTION
    • Milk
    • Food
    • Water
    • Energy
    • Database for animals milk (amount, properties, ...)
    • Database for organization of the cow's fertile cycle, ...
  • SENSORICS
    • Milk properties (flow rate, derivations of that, TODO)
    • Robotic manipulator (3D camera, washing mechanism)
    • Animal within milking construction => Door states.
  • ELECTRONICS
    • Control of Doors.
    • Control of Feeding (derived from amount of milk), but also accept some user constraints (lower / upper bounds for each type of food respectively).
    • Control of Robotic manipulator (joints, gripper).
    • Collection & storage of the stored animal & product data.
  • SOFTWARE
    • Microcontroller programs capable of controlling at least two AMOR system blocks (stacked next to each other).
    • compare ELECTRONICS.


REVISIONS & POWER SYSTEM

Power system 100 kW inverter is planned for late August or early September, the AMOR power system & basic prototype for Autumn. [1]


DISCUSSION

Feel free to post critiques or technical stuff here - alternatively use the forum, even though currently I think it's much easier and more on focus to discuss here directly - or under tab "talk". --Jan

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