Poultry House Environment Control With Reinforcement Learning: Pilot Study of Welfare Indicators

Authors

  • Dragoljub Krstic-Vel Centre for Animal Welfare, Srem Institute of Agro-Informatics, Ruma, Serbia Author
  • Helene Kobelt Centre for Agricultural Data Science, Rheintal Centre for Digital Agriculture, Altstatten, Switzerland Author
  • Bergljot Aabrekk Centre for Controlled Environment Agriculture, Romerike Centre for Digital Agriculture, Jessheim, Norway Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664678

Keywords:

Poultry House Environment Control With Reinforcement Learning; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

Poultry House Environment Control With Reinforcement Learning has moved quickly from a research idea to something a
working farm can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for
poultry house environment control with reinforcement learning, covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost
angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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2024-02-20