Abstract
The article describes project of autonomous workstation capable of feeding fledging birds. During the breeding season animal rescue centers are experiencing huge overload of patients and up to 20% of patients are birds. Despite small size they demand as much care as other animals ? in case of fledging birds main need is frequent feeding which is impossible to cover by working staff. Designed workstation is meant to solve this problem and decrease mortality of sick or immature animals.
Highlights
The subject of this paper is the design of an autonomous robot for feeding fledglings
Little birds disperse moving in various directions, which naturally minimizes the risk of death of the entire clutch
The breeding season of the most popular small birds in Poland is between April and August
Summary
The process of designing a robot consists of the development of a mechanical part, robot’s control system, dedicated algorithm for the animal behaviour analysis, and the creation of the main application for connecting these components. The mechanical part consists in the choice of robot and food dispenser. It was established in the design that both mentioned parts would not be designed from scratch - ready-made, dedicated units were applied. The main application must properly control the entire system on the basis of programmed data and information derived from the camera. Since no ready-made algorithm was found for detecting birds in a way that would enable the performance of the described activity, the algorithm had to be created from scratch, and as there are various types of image analysis algorithm available, the comparison of several types was carried out. The project provides for a graphical interface, with the use of which a user can change programme parameters and read the collected data
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