Animal tracking and feeding monitoring is crucial for automatic individual cow welfare measurement and naturally becomes a prerequisite for autonomous livestock farming systems. The deformable body posture and irregular movement of cows under complex farming environments make tracking of individual animals in a herd very challenging. To tackle the above challenge, a deep … [Read more...] about Vision-Based Cow Tracking and Feeding Monitoring for Autonomous Livestock Farming: The YOLOv5s-CA+DeepSORT-Vision Transformer
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Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach
Dormant pruning is an important orchard activity for maintaining tree health and producing high-quality fruit. Due to decreasing worker availability, pruning is a prime candidate for robotics. However, pruning also represents a uniquely difficult problem, requiring robust systems for perception, pruning point determination, and manipulation that must operate under variable … [Read more...] about Semiautonomous Precision Pruning of Upright Fruiting Offshoot Orchard Systems: An Integrated Approach
