Real-time Control of Pig Growth through an Integrated Management System

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-266

  Parsons, D J ^a   Green, D M ^b   Schofield, C P ^c   Whittemore, C T ^d  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Silsoe Livestock Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUTRITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS;

GROWTH RATE; MODEL ERRORS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33846370885     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Aerts J.-M., Wathes C.M., and Berckmans D. Dynamic data-based modelling of heat production and growth of broiler chickens: development of an integrated management system. Biosystems Engineering 84 (2003) 257-266
2. Aerts J.-M., Lippens M., De Groote G., Buyse J., Decuypere E., Vranken E., and Berckmans D. Recursive prediction of broiler growth response to food intake by using a time-variant parameter estimation method. Poultry Science 82 (2003) 40-49
3. Box M.J. A new method of constrained optimization and a comparison with other methods. Computer Journal 8 (1965) 42-52
4. Doeschl A.B., Green D.M., Whittemore C.T., Schofield C.P., Fisher A.V., and Knap P.W. The relationship between the body shape of living pigs and their carcass morphology and composition. Animal Science 79 (2004) 73-83
5. Doeschl-Wilson A.B., Green D.M., Fisher A.V., Carrol S., Schofield C.P., and Whittemore C.T. The relationship between body dimensions of living pigs and their carcass composition. Meat Science 70 (2005) 229-240
6. Frost A.R., Schofield C.P., Beaulah S.A., Mottram T.T., Lines J.A., and Wathes C.M. A review of livestock monitoring and the need for integrated systems. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 17 (1997) 139-159
7. Frost A.R., Parsons D.J., Stacey K.F., Robertson A.P., Welch S.K., Filmer D., and Fothergill A. Progress towards the development of an integrated management system for broiler chicken production. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 39 (2003) 227-240
8. Green D.M., Brotherstone S., Schofield C.P., and Whittemore C.T. Food intake and live growth performance of pigs measured automatically and continuously from 25 to 115 kg live weight. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 83 (2003) 1150-1155
9. Green D.M., and Whittemore C.T. Architecture of a harmonised model of the growing pig for the determination of dietary net energy and protein requirements and of excretions into the environment (IMS Pig). Animal Science 77 (2003) 113-130
10. Green D.M., and Whittemore C.T. Calibration and sensitivity analysis of a model of the growing pig for weight gain and composition. Agricultural Systems 84 (2005) 279-285
11. Marchant J.A., Schofield C.P., and White R.P. Pig growth and conformation monitoring using image analysis. Animal Science 68 (1999) 141-150
12. Nelder J.A., and Mead R. A simplex method for function minimization. Computer Journal 7 (1965) 308-313
13. Parkinson J.M., and Hutchinson D. An investigation into the efficiency of variants on the simplex method. In: Lootsma F.A. (Ed). Numerical Methods for Non-linear Optimization (1972), Academic Press, London 115-135
14. Parsons D J (1992) Performance of constrained forms of the simplex method for nonlinear optimization. Technical Note TN 003, Silsoe Research Institute, Bedford (unpublished).
15. Schinckel A.P., and de Lange C.F.M. Characterization of growth parameters needed as inputs for pig growth models. Journal of Animal Science 74 (1996) 2021-2036
16. Schofield C.P., Wathes C.M., and Frost A.R. Integrated management systems for pigs-increasing production efficiency and welfare. Animal Production in Australia 24 (2002) 197-200
17. Schofield C.P., Marchant J.A., White R.P., Brandle N., and Wilson M. Monitoring pig growth using a prototype imaging system. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 72 (1999) 205-210
18. Spendley W., Hext G.R., and Himsworth F. Sequential applications of simplex designs in optimisation and evolutionary operation. Technometrics 4 (1962) 441-461
19. Stacey K.F., Parsons D.J., Frost A.R., Fisher C., Filmer D., and Fothergill A. An automatic growth and nutrition control system for broiler production. Biosystems Engineering 89 (2004) 363-371
20. Subrahmanyam M.B. An extension of the simplex method to constrained nonlinear optimization. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 62 (1989) 311-319
21. White R.P., Schofield C.P., Green D.M., Parsons D.J., and Whittemore C.T. The effectiveness of a visual image analysis (VIA) system for monitoring the performance of growing/finishing pigs. Animal Science 78 (2004) 409-418
22. Whittemore C.T., Green D.M., and Knap P.W. Technical review of the energy and protein requirements of growing pigs: food intake. Animal Science 73 (2001) 3-17
23. Whittemore C.T., Green D.M., and Knap P.W. Technical review of the energy and protein requirements of growing pigs: energy. Animal Science 73 (2001) 199-215
24. Whittemore C.T., Green D.M., and Knap P.W. Technical review of the energy and protein requirements of growing pigs: protein. Animal Science 73 (2001) 363-374
25. Whittemore C.T., Green D.M., and Schofield C.P. Nutrition management of growing pigs. In: Wathes C.M., Frost A.R., Gordon F., and Wood J.D. (Eds). Integrated Management Systems for Livestock, BSAS Occasional Publication No. 28 (2001), British Society of Animal Science, Edinburgh 89-95