建構一新穎智慧農業 3.5 智能化 AI 視覺辨識與智能分流受精蛋孵化系統

  • 刊登日期: 2021-02-09
申請系所(單位) 獸醫學系
計畫主持人 張力天 教授 ( 個人網頁 )
計畫名稱(中文) 建構一新穎智慧農業 3.5 智能化 AI 視覺辨識與智能分流受精蛋孵化系統
計畫名稱(英文) Conduct novel intelligent agriculture 3.5 AI vision recognition and smart separation fertilized eggs for hatching systems
共同主持人 1. 吳俊霖 教授 / 資工系 2. 林明澤 教授 / 精密工程研究所
協同主持人
中文摘要 目前台灣的雞隻孵化作業在人工授精後再進行孵化,然而雞蛋的受精率並非百分之百,況且雞蛋受精後有可能會遇到如基因缺陷導致胚胎發育不良、受精卵被病菌汙/感染、孵化儲存環境不佳等因子導致胚胎發育發生不良或孵化後雛雞規格不整與雞蛋孵化率下降等變化。對於大型的雞蛋孵化場域而言,雞蛋於孵化過程中,因無法孵化與孵化規格不一雛雞,致使孵化雞隻的養殖相關產業在供需困難度上呈現多元浮動變化,自然成本與獲利無法穩定化。本團隊預計會使用非破壞性的紅外線熱像儀,配合影像視覺辨識系統的機器深度學習,利用此檢測系統來檢測有問題的受精蛋以及不同蛋殼孔洞分布之受精蛋,其中對於不同蛋殼孔洞之受精蛋檢測部分,根據蛋殼孔洞分布程度將受精蛋分成三類,再依照這三種不同受精蛋的特性,收集調整出最佳化的孵蛋環境參數,設計自動調控溫度、濕度及空氣流動產出孵化規格一致雛雞的智能化孵蛋箱,藉此減少孵化業者的損失進而增加收入,達到改善孵化業與養殖業的營運成本;近年來養殖業技術與設備日益精進,以智能化技術與設備來改善相關業者招募員工不易與業界老化接班困難等問題成了精準農業必需跨越的門檻,所以必須將農業升級方向朝向自動化及智能化來發展;同樣也可以藉發展自動化設備降低孵化場域因工作人員操作所造成病菌汙染的機率,同時改善動物疫情危機;而本計畫所要發展的檢測設備可以降低相關業者的生產成本,也可改善公衛問題,並且可將肉雞業、種雞業與孵化業升級至農業智能化之規模。
英文摘要 The current chick hatching operations are hatched after artificial insemination in Taiwan but with fertilization rate lower than 100%. Moreover, genetic defects leading poor embryonic development, contaminated by pathogenic bacteria, poor hatching storage environment in fertilized eggs will induce poor embryonic growth, irregular hatched chick sizes and reduced egg hatching rate. For large-scale egg hatcheries, failed incubation and hatched chicks with different sizes during the incubation of fertilized eggs resulting in a diversified fluctuation in the supply and demand difficulties of the breeding-related industries of hatchery. These will unstable cost and profitability. Our team will use a non-destructive infrared thermal camera, combined with machine deep learning of the image visual recognition system to detect problematic fertilized eggs and fertilized eggs with different eggshell pore sizes. In the pore detection part of the fertilized eggs, these eggs are divided into three types according to the distribution of the eggshell pores. According to characteristics of these different fertilized eggs, the optimal incubator or environment parameters for hatching are collected and adjusted. The intelligent hatched incubator is designed that automatically regulates temperature, humidity and air flow to produce chicks with consistent hatched specification, thereby reducing the burden of hatchers. In this way, the loss of the hatchery can be reduced and the income can be increased to improve the operating cost. In recent years, the technology and equipment of farming industry have become more sophisticated. Using intelligent technology and equipment to improve the difficulty of recruiting employees in related industries. Problems such as the aging systems of industry with difficulty of succession have become the threshold that precision agriculture must cross. Therefore, the direction of agriculture must be upgraded towards automation and intelligence. The development of automation equipment can also be used to reduce the probability of pathogenic bacteria contamination by staff operations in the hatchery. This will improve the animal epidemic crisis at the same time. The testing equipment to be developed in our project can reduce the production costs or related companies, improve public health issues, and upgrade the broiler, breeder and hatching industry to the scale of agricultural intelligence.