Predictive control system and regulatory method for temperature of livestock house

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12402605-B2
Application number	US-202218264747-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2022
Priority date	Feb 8, 2021
Publication date	Sep 2, 2025
Grant date	Sep 2, 2025

Abstract

A predictive control system and regulatory method for a temperature of a livestock house are provided. The predictive control system includes a temperature and humidity sensor, a breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module, an environmental controller and an environmental regulation implementation mechanism, where the environmental controller is connected to the breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module and the temperature and humidity sensor; the environmental regulation implementation mechanism is connected to the environmental controller and is configured to perform corresponding environmental regulation according to a command from the environmental controller. The regulatory method controls a temperature of a breeding environment based on a livestock breeding environment temperature dynamic setting model, a livestock breeding environment temperature prediction system based on a GM (1,1) model, and a grey predictive fuzzy system based on the GM (1,1) model.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A regulatory method, based on a predictive control system for a temperature of a livestock house that comprises a temperature and humidity sensor, a breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module, an environmental controller, and an environmental regulation implementation mechanism, wherein the environmental controller is connected to the breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module and the temperature and humidity sensor; and the environmental regulation implementation mechanism is connected to the environmental controller and is configured to perform a corresponding environmental regulation according to a command from the environmental controller;
wherein the environmental controller comprises a data acquisition module, an environmental temperature prediction module, a predictive fuzzy control module, a predictive fuzzy decision-making module, and an early warning and overhauling module;
wherein the regulatory method comprises:
controlling a temperature of a breeding environment based on a livestock breeding environment temperature dynamic setting model, a livestock breeding environment temperature prediction system based on a grey model (GM) (1,1), and a grey predictive fuzzy system based on the GM (1,1), and comprises following steps:
(S 1 ) determining a required temperature T x of an environment in a livestock house at time N based on the breeding temperature dynamic requirement model of the livestock; and
dynamically setting, by the livestock breeding environment temperature dynamic setting model, a temperature parameter based on a model of parameters of a livestock breeding characteristic, a behavioral characteristic, a stress mechanism, a livestock breed, a quality, and an age in days;
(S 2 ) predicting a breeding environment temperature of the livestock house based on the GM (1,1); and
acquiring a predicted temperature T y of the environment in the livestock house at time N, wherein a system and method for predicting an environment in a livestock house by the model based on a comprehensive GM (1,1) integrated with accumulated generating operation (AGO) of a sequence, residual model correction, and equal-dimension new information processing comprise the following steps:
accumulating historical temperature data from a data acquisition module to generate an accumulated sequence, establishing the GM (1,1), and solving the model to obtain a time response function;
obtaining a predicted value using the GM (1,1) for residual test, and in combination with a changing characteristic of a residual sequence and an advantage of a residual GM (1,1), establishing the residual GM (1,1) for a sequence failing to pass a model test or having low accuracy to correct the original model;
selecting a number of dimensions of a prediction model by using a residual or accuracy test of the model; and
performing equal-dimension new information processing to establish an equal-dimension new information predicting GM (1,1), and repeating the test and correction of the model;

(S 3 ) determining whether the required temperature T y of the breeding environment of the livestock is equal to the predicted temperature T y , wherein if T x =T y , maintaining an original regulatory strategy of the environmental regulation implementation mechanism and wherein if T x ≠T y , regulating the environmental regulation implementation mechanism by the grey predictive fuzzy control system based on the GM (1,1), and proceeding to (S 4 ); and
(S 4 ) setting a prediction error output by a livestock breeding environment prediction module and a changing rate of the prediction error as input quantities to the predictive fuzzy control module;
setting an error of input and output and a changing rate of the error as input signals to the predictive fuzzy decision-making module;
determining an appropriate prediction step;
establishing a fuzzy decision-making rule;
establishing a grey predictive fuzzy control model based on the GM (1,1) to determine a final output value for fuzzy control; and
controlling an environmental regulatory device based on an output quantity for predictive fuzzy control, wherein if T y <T x , the system automatically enters a heating mode, and wherein if T y >T y , the system automatically enters a wet curtain cooling mode; and
causing the temperature of the livestock house to meet a livestock temperature requirement T x =T y , and repeating steps (S 1 ) and (S 2 ); and
(S 5 ) determining whether the required temperature T y is equal to a measured temperature T c , wherein if |T x −T c |>0.5° C., the system automatically enters an accumulation mode and wherein when a number of accumulations is more than 5, the system performs early warning, triggering an overhaul of the temperature and humidity sensor and the environmental regulation implementation mechanism according to the early warning.

2. The regulatory method according to claim 1 , wherein the environmental temperature prediction module is connected to the data acquisition module, and is configured to output a predicted temperature of a breeding environment in a livestock house at time N based on the comprehensive GM (1,1) integrated with accumulated generating operation (AGO) of a sequence, residual model correction, and equal-dimension new information processing;
the predictive fuzzy control module is connected to the environmental temperature prediction module, wherein input signals to the predictive fuzzy control module are a prediction error for the temperature of the breeding environment in the livestock house and a changing rate of the prediction error; a fuzzy decision-making rule is established to determine an output quantity for predictive fuzzy control, and the environmental regulation implementation mechanism is configured to perform control and regulation based on the output quantity for predictive fuzzy control;
the predictive fuzzy decision-making module is connected to the predictive fuzzy control module, wherein input signals to the predictive fuzzy decision-making module are an error of the predicted temperature and the output quantity and a changing rate of the error, and an appropriate prediction step is determined; and
the early warning and overhauling module is configured to give an early warning based on a number of deviation accumulations, and is connected to the breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module, the temperature and humidity sensor, and the data acquisition module.

3. The regulatory method according to claim 1 , wherein the breeding environment temperature dynamic requirement module is connected to the data acquisition module.

4. The regulatory method according to claim 1 , wherein the environmental regulation implementation mechanism comprises a fan, a wet curtain, a small ventilation window, a heating apparatus, and a spraying device, and is configured to control ventilation, cooling, heating, and humidification of the breeding environment of the livestock according to commands from the environmental controller.

5. The regulatory method according to claim 1 , wherein a number of temperature and humidity sensors is more than or equal to two, which are disposed inside and outside the livestock house, respectively.

Assignees

• Univ China Agricultural

Inventors

• Li Baoming
• Wang Yang
• Zheng Weichao
• Tong Qin

Classifications

• A01K1/007 Primary

  Arrangement of curtain systems · CPC title

• A01K1/0052

  Arrangement of fans or blowers · CPC title

• A01K29/005 Primary

  Monitoring or measuring activity · CPC title

• Y02A40/70

  in livestock or poultry · CPC title

• G05D27/02 Primary

  characterised by the use of electric means · CPC title