Intelligent cat litter cleaning device based on machine vision and mechanical arm

Abstract

The invention discloses an intelligent cat litter cleaning device based on machine vision and a mechanical arm. The intelligent cat litter cleaning device comprises bearing and fixing devices, including an image sensor, a mechanical arm, a shovel, or a clamping claw and the like, and a plurality of functional modules, including a processor, a control circuit, a collection container, a power supplyand the like. The intelligent cat litter cleaning device has a core that the machine vision and the mechanical arm are adopted to simulate a behavior that a person cleans cat litter; and the bearingor fixing devices are used for separating other foreign matters, including blocked cat litter or cat feces blocks and the like, from the cat litter, and carrying out bearing and transferring, and meanwhile, clean cat litter is not mixed or missed. The intelligent cat litter cleaning device comprises but not limited to a shovel with a hole, the mechanical arm or claw, a fixture and the like; when acat defecates in the cat litter and leaves after covering the cat litter (a cat litter blocking form is formed by excrements and urine), the mechanical arm carries out raking action or searching action on the cat litter through the bearing or fixing devices, including the shovel, after the block behind the cat litter is exposed to the surface of the cat litter, a camera can quickly carry out blocking positioning through the machine vision, the mechanical arm is used for cooperating with the bearing or fixing devices to bear and convey the blocks to a collection space to be stored. Through themachine vision and the mechanical arm, the cat litter can be automatically cleaned, an odor problem of a cat raising family and a faeces cleaning process disliked by people can be greatly reduced, and great convenience is provided for the home life of a pet family.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to intelligent hardware applied in the field of pet hygiene, in particular to an intelligent cat litter cleaning device based on machine vision and mechanical arms. Background technique [0002] With the increasing number of well-off groups in China, keeping pets has also become a fashion, especially cats, as a very cute indoor pet, are widely loved by the public. Cats are very clean animals, and their toilets are basically Most of the cat litter will be buried, and the feces and cat litter will agglomerate. Although the cat litter agglomerates are easier to take care of, because the cat's feces are very smelly, it needs to be cleaned in time and the process is not comfortable. With the development of information technology and the promotion of Moore's Law, the wave of intelligence has penetrated into all aspects of our lives, especially machine vision technology and robotic arms have begun to widely enter the industrial field. Th...

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[0002] With the increasing number of domestic well-off groups, keeping pets has become a fashion, especially cats, as a very cute indoor pets, are widely loved by the public. Cats are very clean animals, and they basically go to the toilet. Most cat litter will be buried, and feces and cat litter will agglomerate. Although cat litter agglomerates are easier to take care of, but because cat feces are very smelly, they need to be cleaned in time and the process is not comfortable. With the development of information technology and the impetus of Moore's Law, the wave of intelligence has penetrated into all aspects of our lives, especially machine vision technology and robotic arms have begun to widely enter the industrial field. This is because the scenes in the industrial field are relatively standardized. , machine vision has not been involved too much, but here, cat litter cleaning is actually a very standardized scene, and it is also a scene that people hate to do. Using deep learning algorithm training combined with machine vision can very well clean up cat litter. Recognizing cat litter agglomeration, combined with the mechanical arm, can simulate the action of human shoveling cat litter. Although some smart cat litter boxes have appeared on the market in recent years, most of them are based on spherical rotation, occupying an area of ​​less than Both are large in size, comparable to a washing machine, and are not suitable for the majority of Chinese apartment families. The solution using robotic arms is very miniaturized and will not add additional burden to the family. In contrast, using mechanical arms The consumption of plastic and other raw materials for the arm solution will be greatly reduced, which will not only greatly reduce the pressure on environmental protection, but also reduce the cost

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