| 摘要 |
An animal feedlot management system is disclosed, wherein each feed delivery vehicle employed therein uses real-time virtual reality (VR) modelling and coordinate acquisition techniques supported upon an Internet-based (i.e., Cyberspace) communication platform in order to carry out various types of feedlot operations. Each feedlot vehicle has an on-board computer system which includes a VR subsystem, for accessing a VR database maintaining information representative of a VR model of the feedlot and the objects present therein (eg., tagged animals, pens, alley ways, feedbunks, buildings, vehicles, etc.) The database is continually updated using information obtained from a global satellite-based positioning system (GDS), as well as of local information acquisition systems integrated therewith. Each VR subsystem is linked to a wireless digital communications network realized as a portion of the Internet, provided with feedlot Web site server. Each VR subsystem includes a stereoscopic display subsystem for stereoscopically viewing any portion of the VR feedlot model, including the driver's vehicle as it is being navigated through the feedlot in either a manned or unmanned mode of navigation during feedlot operations. Each feedlot computer system may also include a stereoscopic vision subsystem having a field of view along the navigational course of the remotely controlled vehicle. The navigational courses of these remotely navigated vehicles can be preprogrammed in an orchestrated manner to avoid collisions and optimize the time and energy required to carry out feedlot operations, while reducing the operating cost of the feedlot as well as the number of employees required to support its operations. |
