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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2011
Ellinor Eineren, Linkoping, SE;
Ellinor Eineren, Linkoping, SE;
Agricam AB, Linkoping, SE;
Abstract
A system () for controlling an automatic milking system (), configured for automatically receiving, identifying and selectively milking a lactating animal in accordance with a set of milking parameters associated with the animal. The system comprises a thermal imaging device (), configured for generating at least one current thermal image of at least a portion of an udder of the animal, a storage device (), configured for storing at least one reference thermal image of the udder, and a processing device (), configured for comparing at least one current value derived from the at least one current thermal image and/or at least one current thermal image with at least one reference value derived from the at least one reference thermal image and/or at least one reference thermal image. The processing device is arranged to selectively provide a status indication of the animal in response to a result of the comparison.