TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of bulk tank milk quality based on fuzzy logic
AU - Cha, Myungsoo
AU - Park, Sung Taek
AU - Kim, Taioun
AU - Jayarao, Bhushan M.
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - Bulk tank milk (BTM) from all dairy farms is periodically tested for antibiotic residues and for bacterial contamination. Several guidelines have been proposed to interpret farm bulk tank milk bacterial counts. However the linguistic terms describing bulk tank milk quality or herd management status are rather vague or fuzzy such as excellent, good or unsatisfactory. The objective of this paper was to develop a set of fuzzy descriptors to evaluate bulk tank milk quality and herd's milking practice based on bulk tank milk microbiology test results. Thus, fuzzy logic based reasoning methodologies were developed based on fuzzy inference engine. Input parameters were bulk tank somatic cell counts, standard plate counts, preliminary incubation counts, laboratory pasteurization counts, non agalactiae-Streptococci and Streptococci like organisms, and Staphylococcus aureus. Based on the input data, bulk tank milk quality was classified as excellent, good, milk cooling problem, cleaning problem, environmental mastitis, or mixed with mastitis and cleaning problems.
AB - Bulk tank milk (BTM) from all dairy farms is periodically tested for antibiotic residues and for bacterial contamination. Several guidelines have been proposed to interpret farm bulk tank milk bacterial counts. However the linguistic terms describing bulk tank milk quality or herd management status are rather vague or fuzzy such as excellent, good or unsatisfactory. The objective of this paper was to develop a set of fuzzy descriptors to evaluate bulk tank milk quality and herd's milking practice based on bulk tank milk microbiology test results. Thus, fuzzy logic based reasoning methodologies were developed based on fuzzy inference engine. Input parameters were bulk tank somatic cell counts, standard plate counts, preliminary incubation counts, laboratory pasteurization counts, non agalactiae-Streptococci and Streptococci like organisms, and Staphylococcus aureus. Based on the input data, bulk tank milk quality was classified as excellent, good, milk cooling problem, cleaning problem, environmental mastitis, or mixed with mastitis and cleaning problems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:62749124151
SN - 1601320728
SN - 9781601320728
T3 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2008 and Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
SP - 722
EP - 727
BT - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2008 and Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
T2 - 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2008 and 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications, MLMTA 2008
Y2 - 14 July 2008 through 17 July 2008
ER -