Publication: The Running Chick-Inn: A Robotic Chicken Coop
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2022-06-03
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Volz, Ursula. 2022. The Running Chick-Inn: A Robotic Chicken Coop. Bachelor's thesis, Harvard College.
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This project consists of the design, modeling, fabrication, and testing of an autonomous backyard chicken coop. Backyard chicken coops are an important contributor to reducing the number of chickens in battery cages and increasing egg production, but current solutions are time-intensive, expensive, and destructive of property. The goal of this project is to increase accessibility for owning backyard chickens. For the scope of this project, the coop was scaled down to one-fifth of its anticipated full-size model. The Running Chick-Inn was designed and built using integrated subsystems: architecture, mechanical drive train, boundary and obstacle detection, and power and control.
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Autonomous, Backyard Chickens, Chicken Coop, Robotics, Agriculture engineering, Mechanical engineering
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