Vision system with teat identification
US10653101B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 13, 2018 |
| Grant date | May 19, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 28, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/10028
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system that includes a robotic arm, a laser, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to position the laser adjacent to a dairy livestock and to modify teat location information for one or more teats of the dairy livestock based on a robot position offset between the dairy livestock and the robotic arm. The processor is further configured to generate a teat position associated with an unknown teat based on a scan of the dairy livestock and to determine a position distances between the teat position and teats of the dairy livestock. The processor is further configured to identify a teat of the dairy livestock with the smallest position distance, to associate a teat identifier for the unknown teat with the identified teat, and to store the association in the memory.
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