The growing interest in precision livestock farming is prompted by a desire to understand the basic behavioural needs of the animals and optimize the contribution of each animal. The aim of this study was to develop a system that automatically generated individual animal behaviour and localization data in sheep. A sensor-fusion-system tracking individual sheep position and detecting sheep standing/lying behaviour was proposed. The mean error and standard deviation of sheep position performed by the ultra-wideband location system was 0.357 ± 0.254 m, and the sensitivity of the sheep standing and lying detection performed by infrared radiation cameras and three-dimenional computer vision technology were 98.16% and 100%, respectively. The proposed system was able to generate individual animal activity reports and the real-time detection was achieved. The system can increase the convenience for animal behaviour studies and monitoring of animal welfare in the production environment.

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用于跟踪绵羊位置和行为的传感器融合系统

人们希望了解动物的基本行为需求并优化每只动物的贡献，这促使人们对精准畜牧业越来越感兴趣。本研究的目的是开发一个系统，自动生成绵羊的个体动物行为和定位数据。提出了一种跟踪单个绵羊位置并检测绵羊站立/躺卧行为的传感器融合系统。超宽带定位系统羊位置平均误差和标准差为0.357±0.254 m，红外辐射摄像机和三维计算机视觉技术对羊站立和躺卧检测的灵敏度分别为98.16%和100 ％， 分别。该系统能够生成个体动物活动报告并实现实时检测。