International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials

Korean Society of Sericultural Science (한국잠사학회)
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Development of an Automatic Silkworm Breeding System

  • Sang Kwun Jeong (Department of Automation System, Korea Polytechnic Colleges, JinJu Campus) ;
  • Sung Wook Jang (Department of Automation System, Korea Polytechnic Colleges, JinJu Campus) ;
  • Jin kook Son (HYSYS) ;
  • Seong Wan Kim (National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA)
  • Received : 2023.09.06
  • Accepted : 2023.10.22
  • Published : 2023.12.31
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Abstract

This paper is about the development results of an automatic silkworm breeding system to reduce labor and time by automatically performing the works for silkworm droppings changing and feed its food. It consists of an automatic guided vehicle and a processing unit. The automatic guided vehicle transports a silkworm dropping changing frame mounted on a silkworm tray stand, and the processing unit takes over the dropping changing frame on it, removes excrement contained the droppings changing frame and feeds silkworm food. In the case of the current silkworm farming, because the breeding period for large silkworms (4 to 5 stage) is short to 14 days and the supply of mulberry leaves takes 98% of the total amount of mulberry leaves needed for breeding silkworms at this time, labor concentration is intensive, and all breeding works depends on manpower. Therefore, it was difficult to breed large silkworms on a large scale. Moreover, silkworms are bred by adding Silkworm bed (Seop) and mulberry in the silkworm tray, and their droppings changing is to separate silkworms and excrement by moving silkworm trays one by one, and the production cost increases due to the high-cost manpower for silkworm breeding. To solve this problem, technology for automating silkworm breeding has also been developed. However, there is still a limitation that silkworm feeding and droppings changing works are not suitable for mass breeding because a lot of labor and time are spent depending on manual work. Therefore, a new silkworm breeding system for breeding silkworm automatically is needed and so we developed an Automatic Silkworm Breeding System applying the droppings change frame, the inverting unit, the feeding silkworm food device and automatic guided vehicle.

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Acknowledgement

This study was performed with the support of the Research Program for Agricultural Science & Technology Development (PJ016130), National Academy Institute of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea. The authors appreciate the support.

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