1. Development of a Mobile Inspection Robot for Stacked-cage Layers Houses in Taiwan

In stacked-cage layers houses, it is essential to know the eggs produced in each cage per day and their distributions for evaluating egg-laying performance and the health status of the layers. A two-wheel-drive mobile inspection robot for egg-counting was thus designed, assembled, and on-site experiments were performed and evaluated in this paper. The path of the mobile robot was pre-designated according to the site floor layout, so the robot can move autonomously aisle by aisle. Multiple cameras... A. Cherng