Aleksey N Ruchay, Konstantin A Dorofeev, Vladimir I Kolpakov, Kinispay M Dzhulamanov, Vitaly I Kober

Development of a non-contact system for measuring morphological characteristics of beef cattle

DOI: 10.33284/2658-3135-103-2-157

UDC 636.22/28.082.13:591.4

Acknowledgements:

The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 17-76-20045).

Development of a non-contact system for measuring morphological characteristics of beef cattle

Aleksey N Ruchay1,2, Konstantin A Dorofeev2, Vladimir I Kolpakov1, Kinispay M Dzhulamanov1, Vitaly I Kober1

1 Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Orenburg, Russia)

2Chelyabinsk State University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Summary: The article presents the results of studies on automatic measurements of body and live weight of the Hereford cows. Developed scientific, theoretical, methodological and software solutions include the creation in real time of a three-dimensional model of the body of cattle based on multisensor data from different depth cameras. The obtained three-dimensional reconstruction of the surface of animal’s body was used for automatic measurement of 17 linear measurements in each of 20 cows. The differences between linear measurements of the same animals, obtained by contact measurement according to the standard zootechnical technique and recorded using 3D cameras, were minimal. The contrast of differences in the general plan of characteristics was 3.6%. High-quality quantitative data of non-contact measurements of body articles led to the derivation of the regression equation, which allows to determine the absolute value of live weight with great accuracy. The percentage error ranged from zero to one, which, in turn, additionally emphasizes the prospect of automatic monitoring of morphological characteristics of beef cattle.

Key words: cows, Hereford breed, measurement of an animal, live weight, expert assessment, non-contact measurement, 3D cameras, forecasting.

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Ruchay Aleksey Nikolaevich, Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, Researcher, Laboratory for Beef Cattle Breeding, Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 460000, Orenburg, Russia, 29 9 Yanvarya St., tel.: (3532)30-81-74; e-mail: ran@csu.ru; Head of the Department of Computer Security and Applied Algebra, Chelyabinsk State University, 454001, Chelyabinsk, st. Kashirin brothers, 129

Dorofeev Konstantin Aleksandrovich, Junior Researcher, Research Laboratory “Mathematical Methods for Processing Multisensor Data”, Chelyabinsk State University, 454001, Chelyabinsk, st. Kashirin brothers, 129, e-mail: kostuan1989@mail.ru

Kolpakov Vladimir Ivanovich, Cand. Sci (Agr.), Researcher at the Beef Cattle Breeding Laboratory, Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 460000, Orenburg, Russia, 29 9 Yanvarya St., tel.: 8(3532)30-81-74; e-mail: vkolpakov056@yandex.ru

Dzhulamanov Kinispay Murzagulovich, Dr. Sci. (Agr.), Head of the Laboratory for Beef Cattle Breeding, Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 460000, Orenburg, Russia, 29 9 Yanvarya St., cell: 8-987-840-49-28, e-mail: kinispai.d@yandex.ru

Kober Vitaly Ivanovich, Dr. Sci. (Technical), Researcher at the Beef Cattle Breeding Laboratory, Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 460000, Orenburg, Russia, 29, 9 Yanvarya St., tel.: 8(3532)30-81-74; e-mail: vkober@hotmail.com

Received: 19 May 2020; Accepted: 15 June 2020; Published: 8 July 2020

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