CN101077295A - Feed intaking detection method for domestic animals and intelligent detector - Google Patents

Feed intaking detection method for domestic animals and intelligent detector Download PDF

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CN101077295A
CN101077295A CN 200710014345 CN200710014345A CN101077295A CN 101077295 A CN101077295 A CN 101077295A CN 200710014345 CN200710014345 CN 200710014345 CN 200710014345 A CN200710014345 A CN 200710014345A CN 101077295 A CN101077295 A CN 101077295A
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The present invention relates to livestock feed intake measuring method and instrument. The livestock feed intake measuring instrument includes one elastic rack assembly with switch sensor, and one monolithic computer. After the elastic rack assembly is fixed on the head of a livestock animal and the sensor is made to contact with the fossa temporalis or check, the sensor will outputs pulse signal reflecting the chewing frequency and time number and the ruminating frequency and time number, and the computer receives and processes the pulse signal to obtain swallowing times and thus the feed intake. The livestock feed intake measuring instrument has low cost, convenient sensor assembly installation, high automation, fast detection speed and other advantages, and is suitable for real-time detection of animal feed intake.

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Feed intaking detection method for domestic animals and intelligent detecting instrument
(1) technical field
The invention belongs to livestock-raising and agricultural engineering technology field, relate to the intellectual measuring instrument of a breeding class animal feed intake, especially in the domestic animal animal searches for food process, can realize online detection its feed intake.
(2) background technology
Feed intake is that the domestic animal animal productivity is the key constraints of lactogenic and growth, is the quantification basis of the required nutrient substance of domestic animal animal health and production; It is the major variable of adjusting the total metabolism speed of the supply of domestic animal animal institute's energy requirement or other nutrient substance and domestic animal animal organism; It is the suitableeest standard of decision feeding and management.Have only balanced improve the constantly food-intake of domestic animal animal, the domestic animal animal productivity that just can realize ideal.The domestic animal animal feed intake is calculated and measures inaccurate, just be difficult to formulate the nutritional programs of domestic animal animal.This shows that the feed intake of measuring the domestic animal animal exactly more and more has consequence.
Mensuration to feed intake can be divided into drylot feeding domestic animal animal and the mensuration of herding the domestic animal animal feed intake.The feed intake of herding the domestic animal animal generally is higher than the feed intake of drylot feeding domestic animal animal.Herd the domestic animal animal relatively, the mensuration ratio of drylot feeding domestic animal animal feed intake is easier to realize.But for the domestic animal animal of free choice feeding under the drylot feeding condition, the mensuration of feed intake also is very difficult.
For measuring the feed intake of domestic animal animal, Chinese scholars has all been done number of research projects, and has obtained certain achievement.
At present, conclude about the assay method of domestic animal animal feed intake and can be divided into 3 classes, be i.e. directly algoscopy, indirect determination method and to utilize most of basic data estimation algorithm be empirical method.
Directly assay method be utilize weighing apparatus or measuring apparatus animal before and after searching for food body weight or measure the quality of forage grass, although this method is accurately rapid, but it is higher that scale is raised the instrument and equipment expense, the situation of ruminating that can not reflect ruminant, and directly algoscopy is difficult to realize concerning the animal under the grazing condition especially.The indirect determination method is based on that the domestic animal animal measures, and comprises track record search for food behavior difference, domestic animal breeding performonce fo animals difference and collecting dung technology.The shortcoming of this method maximum is exactly the behavior of searching for food that can have influence on the domestic animal animal.Empirical method is based on the feed intake that the domestic animal animal was calculated and estimated in the past basic data.Because the feed intake of domestic animal animal is subjected to the influence of a lot of aspects, as forage grass, domestic animal animal self and raising condition etc., therefore, the degree of accuracy of indirect determination method can be very restricted.
In sum, there are shortcomings such as real-time is poor, accuracy rate is not high, the automation and intelligentification degree is low, measurement expense is high, measuring period is long, measuring process is loaded down with trivial details in mensuration to the domestic animal animal feed intake at present, raising along with people's living standard, Developing of Animal Industry has been proposed new requirement, under these circumstances, research and develop a kind of easy to use, cheap, accuracy is high, automation and intelligentification degree height, can realize to the domestic animal animal feed intake fast and the instrument of real-time online measuring have crucial meaning.
(3) summary of the invention
The present invention is a kind of determining instrument that can measure automatically the domestic animal animal feed intake.This determining instrument is by the behavior of searching for food of sensor domestic animal animal, as chews, and comprising searches for food chews and/or ruminate and chew, swallow and information such as the number of times of searching for food, and realizes the automatic detection of feed intake.Compare with existing feed intake determination techniques method, the present invention is simple to operate, the instrument and equipment expense is low, characteristics are that measurement is rapid, convenient, and the software system of cooperation exploitation can be realized the situation of searching for food and/or ruminate the detection of situation, statistical analysis, inquiry etc.
For achieving the above object, the invention provides following technical scheme: the temporal fossa portion or the cheek portion that pick off are installed to the domestic animal animal by the elastic support combination, chew or ruminate when chewing when the domestic animal animal searches for food, pick off is converted to pulse signal with the masticatory movement of domestic animal animal, utilizes single-chip microcomputer to write down this pulse signal and it is suitably handled.The domestic animal animal is when swallowing (no matter search for food and swallow or ruminate and swallow), and masticatory movement temporarily stops, and can detect the number of times of swallowing of domestic animal animal so easily by pick off.Because ruminant chewing frequency and number of times and chewing frequency with number of times is different when ruminating when searching for food, so can distinguish the time of searching for food of domestic animal animal easily and ruminate the time by software processes.Because same domestic animal animal forms the big or small basic identical of food group when searching for food, therefore by measuring the number of times of swallowing of domestic animal animal, can obtain the number that the domestic animal animal swallows food group, just can calculate the feed intake of domestic animal animal then according to the quality of food group.In addition, the number of times of swallowing when the domestic animal animal swallows food group when searching for food number both can have been searched for food by detection obtains, and the number of times of swallowing in the time of also can ruminating by detection obtains.This detector is by forming near switching regulator and/or electro-optical pickoff, Single Chip Microcomputer (SCM) system and elastic support combination etc., and the feed intake data that detector obtains can be wired or be adopted wireless mode to be transferred to host computer.It has following assembly: sensing chip, flexible member, pick off, connect holding wire, elastic support, the detector main body, locking sliding sleeve a, lock-screw, the adjustable elastic support, adjustable support, locking sliding sleeve b, lock-screw, the pick off locking nut, keyboard control system, display system, CPU, data-storage system, clock system, data communication interface, communication control system, the signal condition system, insulation crust, the photoelectricity coupled system, LCD display, panel, power knob, the communication button, testing button and clock button, SR etc.
The detector that the present invention relates to can be installed to the head of animal quickly and easily, and pick off is contacted with temporal fossa or the buccal position of animal, can detect the feed intake of domestic animal animal easily and/or ruminate situation, realize detection automatization and intellectuality, and it is higher to detect degree of accuracy.Cooperate related software, can review the feed intake and/or ruminate situation in all one's life of domestic animal animal, this daily nutrition management to the domestic animal animal, health control and the raising level of scientific management have very important significance, and have cost low, be widely used the characteristics that are easy to promote.
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Fig. 1 is a sensor combinations sketch map of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is elastic support combination of the present invention, detector main body and sensor combinations structural map;
Fig. 3 is the hardware principle sketch of feed intake detector main part;
Fig. 4 is the panel sketch of feed intake detector;
Fig. 5 is the mastery routine population structure sketch of systems soft ware;
Fig. 6 is a feed intake detector software flow pattern.
Among the figure: 1. sensing chip, 2. flexible member, 3. pick off, 4. connection holding wire, 5. elastic support, 6. detector main body, 7. lock sliding sleeve a, 8. lock-screw, 9. adjustable elastic support, 10. adjustable support, 11. locking sliding sleeve b, 12. lock-screws, 13. the pick off locking nut, 14. keyboard control systems, 15. display systems, 16. singlechip CPU, 17. data-storage systems, 18. clock systems, 19. data communication interface, 20. communication control systems, 21. signal condition systems, 22. power supply, 23. insulation crust, 24. photoelectricity coupled systems, 25.LCD display, 26. panel, 27. power knob, 28. testing buttons, 29. communication buttons, 30. the clock button, 31. SRs.
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Introduce the specific embodiment of the present invention below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
In Fig. 1, flexible member (2) is fixed to the induction end of pick off (3), fix a sensing chip (1) in the inboard of flexible member (2), adjust the distance of sensing chip (1), make its sensitivity, reliable to pick off (3) induction end according to the sensitivity and the detection distance of pick off (3).
In Fig. 2, installation and measuring instrument main body (6) between elastic support (5) and adjustment locking sliding sleeve a (7), adjustable elastic support (9) is connected to an end of elastic support (5) by locking sliding sleeve a (7) and lock-screw (8), adjustable support (10) is connected to the lower end of adjustable elastic support (9) by locking sliding sleeve b (11) and lock-screw (12), pick off (3) is installed in an end of adjustable support (10), is connected with detector main body (6) by connecting holding wire (4).The material of elastic support (5), adjustable elastic support (9) is a rustless steel.During measurement,, unclamp lock-screw (8) according to the size of the animal head of searching for food, adjust the position of locking sliding sleeve a (7) on elastic support (5), adjust the position of adjustable elastic support (9) simultaneously,, the elastic force of elastic support combination is of moderate size the head of elastic support composite card animal.Unclamp lock-screw (12), adjust the locking position of sliding sleeve b (11) on adjustable elastic support (9) and the position of adjustable support (10), make temporal fossa portion or the cheek portion of flexible member (2) the aligning animal of pick off (3) end.Unclamp pick off locking nut (13), the position of adjusting pick off (3) makes the flexible member (2) of sensor end contact and adjust the distance of sensing chip (1) to pick off (3) induction end with animal head corresponding site.
In Fig. 3, pick off (3) is connected with photoelectricity coupled system (24) by connecting holding wire (4), is connected the corresponding port that singlechip CPU (16) is inserted in the back with signal condition system (21).Keyboard control system (14), display system (15), data-storage system (17), clock system (18) and communication control system (20) insert the corresponding port of singlechip CPU (16) respectively.Former device used in above-mentioned each system is commercially available prod commonly used, wherein photoelectricity coupled system (24) is made up of photoelectrical coupler TIL113, the signal condition system is made up of comparator LM339 and 74HC14, keyboard control system is made up of keypad and SMD decoder 74LS164, display system is made up of LCD display, data-storage system is made up of latch 74LS373 and data storage 62256, clock system is made up of the intervalometer and the external clock chip M41T81 of singlechip CPU inside, communication control system is made up of MAX232 and/or 485 standard interfaces and/or wireless transmission, and other similar chip of the chip availability performance that is adopted in above-mentioned each system replaces.
Figure 4 shows that the sketch of detector panel, power knob (27) is opening and closing of control power supply; Testing button (28), communication button (29), clock button (30), SR (31) all are connected with singlechip CPU (16) by keyboard system.
Fig. 5 is the mastery routine population structure sketch of systems soft ware.After energising starts to detector, carry out a series of initialization of system earlier, enter the System self-test process then, if self check does not reinitialize by then returning; Otherwise, then call read clock system and display system subprogram and begin the demonstration time and wait for that button presses, along with changing different branches over to, carries out the distinct program that is pushed button to realize 6 kinds of different functions.
Fig. 6 is a feed intake detector software flow pattern.When reality is used, be provided with " beginning test " button, after pressing this key, just entered detection-phase to feed intake, at first call the display system subprogram to show test group number, system carries out initialization to the intervalometer T0 of single-chip microcomputer inside then, pick up counting and detect the time that pulse high level continues, when external pulse triggers the 0 generation interruption of single-chip microcomputer external interrupt, test to set of pulses information is promptly finished, after testing set of pulses information, data are saved in the data storage, can calculate corresponding feed intake by the mathematical model that calls between feed intake and respective pulses information; The pulse information data that collect simultaneously can also send to host computer by communication module and be used for determining that corresponding nutritional programs and Managed Solution etc. provide foundation.State is retouched in program attention key sweeping subsequently, if press " end " key this moment, then program withdraws from the end of expression testing process; If do not press " end " key, then program is returned and is detected next time till pressing this key.
The present invention has functions such as data acquisition, date processing and storage, data communication, clock demonstration, has good man-machine interaction interface and interface.Man-machine interface is made of keyboard and LCD display, by keyboard user can be easily to the operation of detector input control parameter and control command with control system; The user also can be by the operation conditions and the operation result of display interface viewing system; Data storage can adopt the RAM of the property lost RAM or non-loss; Time clock feature utilizes single-chip microcomputer internal timing/counting and/or peripheral clock chip to come the time is measured; Data communication adopts MAX232 and/or 485 standard interfaces and/or wireless transmission to constitute the communication of single-chip microcomputer and PC; What pick off adopted is near the switching regulator pick off; Signal conditioning circuit comprises comparison circuit, negater circuit.
The technical scheme that adopts: the main part of detector is in insulation crust, and pick off and erecting device are in the insulation crust outside.After the user presses " test " button, send to single-chip microcomputer after the pulse signal process shaping circuit shaping that produces when pick off is searched for food detected domestic animal animal, single-chip microcomputer this moment recording clock the moment, and the domestic animal animal searched for food data storage in data storage.The processing of image data for convenience, this detector is provided with microcomputer interface, can the data of gathering be sent to by this interface to handle in the PC and preserve, in PC, we have specially write the program of carrying out date processing, and the user can get information about the behavior of searching for food of domestic animal animal.
The present invention has popularizing application prospect preferably, can help lend some impetus to China's animal husbandry and realize scientific and modernized.

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1, the detection method of one breeding class animal feed intake, it is characterized in that: the pick off of wearing a masticatory movement by temporal fossa portion or cheek portion the domestic animal animal, when the breeding class animal chew or ruminate when chewing, pick off is converted to pulse signal with the masticatory movement of domestic animal animal, intervalometer by single-chip microcomputer is counted this pulse signal, and by the umber of pulse preservation of data storage to record, stop up to masticatory movement, taking out data in the data storage then send CPU to analyze and handles, chew frequency and number of times and chew the different of frequency and number of times when ruminating what search for food according to ruminant during processing, can distinguish searching for food and ruminating of domestic animal animal, because a certain domestic animal animal individual is in a certain trophophase, form the big or small basic identical of food group when searching for food, according to searching for food or swallowing number of times when ruminating, the number that the domestic animal animal swallows food group can be obtained, the feed intake of domestic animal animal can be obtained then according to the quality of food group.
2, a breeding class animal feed intake detector mainly is made up of elastic support and pick off, it is characterized in that: elastic support one end connects data acquisition unit, and the other end is mounted on a switching regulator pick off of domestic animal animal temporal fossa portion or cheek portion.
3, a breeding class animal feed intake detector according to claim 2, data acquisition unit is made of keyboard control system, LCD display, data storage, clock system, communication control system, photoelectricity coupled system and CPU, it is characterized in that the sensor output signal line links to each other with the data acquisition unit signal input part.
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