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Neural predictive control of broiler chicken and pig growth

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dc.creator Demmers, Theo G. M.
dc.creator Cao, Yi
dc.creator Gauss, Sophie
dc.creator Lowe, John C.
dc.creator Parsons, David J.
dc.creator Wathes, Christopher M.
dc.date 2018-08-17T13:20:26Z
dc.date 2018-08-17T13:20:26Z
dc.date 2018-07-20
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:37:47Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:37:47Z
dc.identifier Demmers TGM, Cao Y, Gauss S, Lowe JC, Parsons DJ and Wathes CM., Neural predictive control of broiler chicken and pig growth. Biosystems Engineering, Volume 173, Issue September, 2018, pp. 134-142
dc.identifier 1537-5110
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2018.06.022
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13411
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182269
dc.description Active control of the growth of broiler chickens and pigs has potential benefits for farmers in terms of improved production efficiency, as well as for animal welfare in terms of improved leg health in broiler chickens. In this work, a differential recurrent neural network (DRNN) was identified from experimental data to represent animal growth using a nonlinear system identification algorithm. The DRNN model was then used as the internal model for nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to achieve a group of desired growth curves. The experimental results demonstrated that the DRNN model captured the underlying dynamics of the broiler and pig growth process reasonably well. The DRNN based NMPC was able to specify feed intakes in real time so that the broiler and pig weights accurately followed the desired growth curves ranging from −12% to +12% and −20% to +20% of the standard curve for broiler chickens and pigs, respectively. The overall mean relative error between the desired and achieved broiler or pig weight was 1.8% for the period from day 12 to day 51 and 10.5% for the period from week 5 to week 21, respectively.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Predictive Control
dc.subject Broiler
dc.subject Pig
dc.subject Growth
dc.subject System Identification
dc.subject Neural Network Models
dc.title Neural predictive control of broiler chicken and pig growth
dc.type Article


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