Development of the Gantry Platform Prototype for Manure Collection in Pig Pens
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Chen, Bau-Hung
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Owing to the rapid development of swine industry, huge amount of wastewater has been discharged to the river and causes pollution to our environment. The impact is getting worse especially for the land limited country such as Taiwan. The three-stage wastewater treatment system, which is widely used in Taiwan, is hard to meet the more and more strict effluent standard. Therefore, to develop an effective treatment method is necessary to solve this problem. As we know, the primary pollution source of swine wastewater is the solid manure. Therefore, if the solid manure can be removed before flushing the pig pens, lots of pollutants will be reduced and the consequent wastewater treatment will be much easier to deal with. Also, tremendous cleaning water can be saved.
A suction-type manure collecting facility has been developed by NTU and successfully proved to be able to remove the solid manure effectively. However, intensive labor is required to operate this facility. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a labor-saving automatic moving platform which is able to integrate the manure collector. This study has developed a prototype of gantry-type moving platform, of which the horizontal moving mechanism is able to position the x, y coordinates, and its z-axis is able to move up and down freely to simulate the motion of the suctioning process. Test results showed that the precision of the single target point can be accurate up to 1 mm, and for the multiple target points operation, the maximum error was less than 0.5 cm. Therefore, the precision of the platform prototype should be able to meet the requirement for field operation in pig farms.
Subjects
天車
移動平台
豬舍
集糞
微控制器
gantry
moving platform
pig pens
manure collection
micro-controller
Type
thesis
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