MANAGING THE COMMITMENT PEN IN GUIDED FLOW ROBOTIC MILKING

In fully guided flow robotic milking, cows receive access to the robot through a commitment pen, where they are held until a robot is available. A sort gate determines whether cows go to the commitment pen or the feed bunk. At the simplest level, cows with milking permission go through the commitment pen, to the robots, and cows without milking permission go to the feed bunk. It’s actually more complicated than that. Sort gate decisions in the software can also limit the number of cows that are allowed into the commitment pen. Cows with milking permission might be sent to the feed bunk if the commitment pen is full. Managing the commitment pen involves an interaction between gate decisions and milking permission.

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