METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATE THE MANAGEMENT OF INTENSIVELY MANAGED MILK PRODUCING LIVESTOCK TO PRODUCE CUSTOMIZED PRODUCT DEPENDING ON END-USE USING MACHINE LEARNING

    公开(公告)号:US20230098374A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17484963

    申请日:2021-09-24

    IPC分类号: G01N33/06 G06N20/00 A01K5/02

    摘要: Embodiments disclosed include systems, apparatus, and/or methods to receive an indication of a target quality of a property associated with a bioproduct obtained from a managed livestock, the target quality being associated with an identified end-use, and generate a set of input vectors based on the target quality of the property. The systems, apparatus, and/or methods can be further configured to provide the set of input vectors to a machine learning model to generate an output indicating a feed selection and/or feed schedule selection to be used to feed the managed livestock. The feed selection can be such that, upon consumption, increase a likelihood of meeting the target quality of the property. In some embodiments, the systems, apparatus, and/or methods include implementation of features like temporal abstraction, auto-tuning of hyperparameters of model/agent, hierarchical/cognitive learning, synthetic state/trajectory generation and/or adaptive lookahead to achieve the desired output.

    CALIBRATING A PLURALITY OF SENSORS IN A SYSTEM FOR OBTAINING ANIMAL DATA FROM A GROUP OF ANIMALS

    公开(公告)号:US20220283136A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-08

    申请号:US17675871

    申请日:2022-02-18

    申请人: Nedap N.V.

    IPC分类号: G01N33/06 A01J5/01 A01J5/013

    摘要: A method of calibrating a sensors in a system for obtaining animal data from animals is described. The sensors are configured to obtain measurements of an animal related parameter during arbitrary visits by the animal to the sensors. For at least one of the animals, a first measurement associated with a first sensor of the sensors is obtained, and calculating one or more relations between the first measurement and one or more second measurements associated with the respective animal. Each of the second measurements is obtained using a further sensor, so as to obtain at least one representative relation for each combination of the first sensor and each one of the further sensors. The system calculates, based on the at least one representative relation, a correction factor associated with at least one sensor of the plurality of sensors.

    OBTAINING AN INDICATION ABOUT A FAT CONTENT OF MILK

    公开(公告)号:US20210247361A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-12

    申请号:US17285118

    申请日:2019-08-07

    IPC分类号: G01N29/036 A61M1/06 G01N33/06

    摘要: A breast pump device (1) is equipped with or used in conjunction with an acoustic milk expression assessment system (6) for the purpose of obtaining an indication about a fat content of expressed milk. The acoustic milk expression assessment system (6) includes an acoustic sensor (61) and a processor (62) configured to process an acoustic signal received from the acoustic sensor (61) during operation of the breast pump device (1) when a milk receptacle (4) is used with the device (1). By recording sound during a pumping session, it is possible to determine a frequency shift in the sound of droplets falling down in the receptacle (4) and hitting a surface of the milk contained by the receptacle (4) with respect to a reference situation of a liquid having 0% fat content, which can be taken as a factor in estimating a value related to the fat content of the milk.

    Molecularly imprinted polymer sensors

    公开(公告)号:US10809215B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US16004297

    申请日:2018-06-08

    摘要: A molecularly imprinted polymer sensor for sensing a target molecule includes (a) a porous polymer film that is molecularly imprinted with a homolog of the target molecule and includes a conductive polymer having resistance sensitive to binding with the target molecule and a structural polymer providing porosity to the polymer film, and (b) interdigitated electrodes, located on a surface of the polymer film, for measuring a change in the resistance to sense said binding.

    PREDICTION METHOD FOR METHANE (CH4) EMISSION OF A DAIRY COW

    公开(公告)号:US20200309758A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16643008

    申请日:2018-08-30

    摘要: Described herein is a method for predicting the methane (CH4) emission of a dairy cow, the method including: a) determining the total amount of milk of a dairy cow per one day; b) determining the energy corrected milk value (ECM) of the milk of the dairy cow of the same day as in a); c) determining the percentage amount of saturated fatty acids (SFAs) of the total milk fat of the dairy cow of the same day as in a) and the percentage amount of stearic acid (C18:0) of the total milk fat of the dairy cow of the same day; d) calculating the daily amount of methane emitted by the dairy cow based on the ECM as determined according to b), the percentage amount of SFAs of the total milk fat as determined according to c), and the percentage amount of C18:0 of the total milk fat as determined according to c).

    Quality control of dairy products using chromatic profiles

    公开(公告)号:US10024833B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-17

    申请号:US15501402

    申请日:2014-08-08

    发明人: Yansong Gu

    IPC分类号: G01J3/46 G01N33/06 G01N21/25

    摘要: A method for the quality control of dairy products is disclosed. The method includes scanning the surface of a dairy product test sample using a chromatic scanner system to generate a spectral pattern of reflected light intensities, which pattern is unique to the test sample. The spectral pattern from the test sample is compared with spectral patterns from one or more reference dairy products to provide an indication of test sample identify, quality and/or nutritional content.