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Motivation In incidents involving a mass accumulation of victims — such as natural disasters — human rescue personnel are a scarce resource, and rescuers may put themselves at risk when reaching victims in hazardous environments, such as partially collapsed buildings. As a result, victims may not receive help in time. Rescue robotics aims to close […]

Die Freilandhaltung von Legehennen gewinnt aus Gründen des Tierwohls und der Verbrauchernachfrage zunehmend an Bedeutung, setzt die Tiere im Auslauf jedoch Greifvögeln wie Habicht, Bussard und Milan aus. Neben den unmittelbar gerissenen Tieren entstehen erhebliche indirekte Schäden: Panik in der Herde, Verletzungen, Leistungseinbrüche und eine dauerhaft reduzierte Nutzung des Auslaufs. Da Greifvögel geschützt sind, muss […]

Maintenance of electric fences is essential to keep animals secure in pasture fields. For any automatic maintenance procedure, the location of the fence needs to be known. Techniques like GNSS or visual detection come with drawbacks that make them unapplicable for the real application, as the accuracy and reliablity are not high enough to precisely […]