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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2018
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Mark A. Foresman, Houston, TX (US);
Bradley J. Prevost, Pearland, TX (US);
Marinus P. Van Aart, Marknesse, NL;
Technologies Holdings Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system that includes a robotic arm, a laser, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to position the laser adjacent to a dairy livestock and to modify teat location information for one or more teats of the dairy livestock based on a robot position offset between the dairy livestock and the robotic arm. The processor is further configured to generate a teat position associated with an unknown teat based on a scan of the dairy livestock and to determine a position distances between the teat position and teats of the dairy livestock. The processor is further configured to identify a teat of the dairy livestock with the smallest position distance, to associate a teat identifier for the unknown teat with the identified teat, and to store the association in the memory.