Design and Development of Automatic Cattle Feeder for Smart Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Automatic feeding machines are especially designed for distributing feed to a large number of animals on a farm or any other facility. These are automated machines which require little to no human intervention during feeding process. The main objective is to design automatic cattle feeding system that moves around the fence to distribute the feed uniformly. The use of automation ensures precise and an exact determination of feed requirements Basically, the feeding of the cattle is manual which is effort and time consuming. In this project, automatic cattle feeding system is introduced where food feeder follows the path through a predetermined distance and places the feed to the cattle by the side of the feed fence using conveyer system. The prototype is developed using automation unit interfaced with controller i.e. IOT that tracks the conveyer system to follow. The motors are interfaced to operate in either direction. A hopper door operated is places the feed. Similarly, controller- based switching feature is added for manual intervention. As the result, the developed automatic cattle feeder system is able to track and distribute the feed in specified path and distance respectively

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