State of the art of automatic milking systems

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-17

  Rossing, W ^a   Hogewerf, P H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic milking; Robot milking

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AUTOMATION; DAIRIES; FARMS; ROBOTICS;

AUTOMATIC MILKING SYSTEMS; ROBOT MILKING;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0031122454     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1699(96)01229-x     Document Type: Article

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