Patent ID: 9161511
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: A01J,A01K,B25J,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A milking system, comprising: a rotary milking platform having a plurality of milking stalls; a plurality of milking devices, each milking device configured for attachment to the teats of a dairy livestock located in a corresponding milking stall of the rotary milking platform; a first robotic device operable to prepare the teats of a first dairy livestock while the first dairy livestock is located in a first milking stall of the rotary milking platform; a second robotic device operable to attach a milking apparatus to the teats of a second dairy livestock while the second dairy livestock is located in a second milking stall of the rotary milking platform; a third robotic device operable to apply a sanitizing agent to the teats of a third dairy livestock while the third dairy livestock is located in a third milking stall of the rotary milking platform; and a controller that controls the operation of the second robotic device based at least in part upon a milking log that stores information regarding the amount of time that has elapsed since the last time the second dairy livestock was milked and whether an amount of milk collected from the second dairy livestock during a previous time period is less than a predefined threshold associated with the second dairy livestock.