System for carrying out and managing animal feedlot operations using coordinate acquisition techniques
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1. An animal feedlot management system for installation in an animal feedlot, comprising:
- at least one feedlot vehicle;
a database for maintaining information representative of said feedlot and objects and animals contained in said feedlot; and
for each said feedlot vehicle;
vehicle information acquisition means comprising two global positioning system (GPS) receivers, at least one of GPS receivers being a differential GPS receiver for acquiring vehicle information regarding the position and the orientation of said vehicle; and
(i) the position of said feedlot vehicle; and
/orthe state of operation of said feedlot vehicle; and
information transmission means for transmitting said vehicle information to said database.
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Abstract
An animal feedlot management system is disclosed, wherein each feed delivery vehicle employed therein uses real-time virtual reality (VR) modelling and coordinate acquisition techniques supported upon an Internet-based (i.e., Cyberspace) communications platform in order to carry out various types of feedlot operations. Each feedlot vehicle has an on-board computer system which includes a VR subsystem, for accessing a VR database maintaining information representative of a VR model of the feedlot and the objects present therein (eg., tagged animals, pens, alley ways, feedbunks, buildings, vehicles, etc.)
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1. An animal feedlot management system for installation in an animal feedlot, comprising:
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at least one feedlot vehicle; a database for maintaining information representative of said feedlot and objects and animals contained in said feedlot; and for each said feedlot vehicle; vehicle information acquisition means comprising two global positioning system (GPS) receivers, at least one of GPS receivers being a differential GPS receiver for acquiring vehicle information regarding the position and the orientation of said vehicle; and (i) the position of said feedlot vehicle; and
/orthe state of operation of said feedlot vehicle; and information transmission means for transmitting said vehicle information to said database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An animal feedlot management system, which comprises:
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an information acquisition means comprising a satellite-based global positioning system (GPS), at least one feed delivery vehicle employing an on-board feed delivery computer system which includes a feedlot modelling subsystem for maintaining a geometrical model of said feedlot and animals and objects contained therein, said computer system in communication with said GPS information acquisition means; a coordinate acquisition subsystem for acquiring coordinate information specifying the position of each said feedlot vehicle relative to a coordinate reference system symbolically representing said feedlot, and a geometrical processor for processing said coordinate information in order to update said geometrical model; and a means for uniformly delivering a preassigned amount of feed ration along the length of a feedbunk in the feedlot, wherein said GPS information acquisition means periodically updates vehicle information obtained from said coordinate acquisition subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A method of managing an animal feedlot, comprising:
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providing at least one feedlot vehicle; providing at least two global positioning system (GPS) receivers on said vehicle, at least one of said GPS receivers being a differential GPS receiver; ascertaining vehicle information comprising the position and orientation of each said feedlot vehicle; and providing said vehicle information to said central database. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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