Robotic Tankette for Intelligent Bioenergy Agriculture: Design, Development and Field Tests

Xaud, Marco F. S.; Leite, Antonio C.; Barbosa, Evelyn S.; Faria, Henrique D.; Loureiro, Gabriel S. M.; From, Pål Johan

doi:10.20906/cps/cba2018-1357

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“…Today, UAVs have been adopted widely in crop farming monitoring, ground robotic vehicles are also developed rapidly for different scenarios of soil moisture, pH, fertility monitoring and climate conditions monitoring, crop plant diseases and insect pests monitoring, growth and yield monitoring, etc. (Table 2) [8] Soil and crop growth monitoring Ground 4-wheeled vehicle Stereo camera, GPS Fluorescence, infrared thermography [9] Soil monitoring All-terrain vehicle --2 visual cameras, VIS-NIR sensor, thermal camera, IMU [10] Soiland climate monitoring 4-wheeled vehicle --Soil moisture level sensor, weather station [11] Crop growth monitoring High clearance swather RTK-GPS 4 ultrasonic sensors, 2 crop circle sensors, 2 infrared thermometers, 2 RGB cameras [12] Crop and environment monitoring 4-wheeled small tank Teleoperated, solar sensor Infrared camera, 2 laser scanner, temperature and humidity sensor [13] Scholz et al [8] developed an automatic soil penetrometer, which was integrated into an autonomous mobile robot named Bonirob, field measurements have been performed by using the robot in two modes: a "manual mode", where the user controls the system via a remote control panel, and an "automatic mode" where the robot acts completely automatic. The European Union VineRobot project involves eight partner groups from the wine-making countries of France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, have developed an autonomous robot that will measure vineyard parameters (vegetative growth, grape yield, grape composition, and soil moisture) on-the-go in a non-invasive way to help winemaking decisions [9,10] .…”

Section: Development Of Agricultural Monitoring Robots 221 Monitoring Robots In Crop Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Jin¹,

Liu²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

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In the face of the contradiction between the increasing demand for agricultural products and the sharp reduction of agricultural resources and labor force, agricultural robot technology is developing explosively on the basis of decades of technical and industrial exploration. In view of the complexity and particularity of the development of agricultural robot technology, it is of great value to summarize its development characteristics and make reasonable judgments on its development trend. In this paper, the type of agricultural robot systems was first discussed. From the classification of agricultural robot systems, the development of main types of monitoring robots, non-selective and selective working robots for crop farming, livestock and poultry farming and aquaculture were introduced in detail. Then the scientific research, core technology, and commercialization of different types of agricultural robots were summarized. It is believed that navigation in complex agricultural environments, damage-free robot-crop interaction, and agronomy-robot fusion have high scientific value and significance to promote the revolutionary advances in agricultural robot technology. The characteristics of inter-discipline between agricultural robot technology and new materials, artificial intelligence, bionics, agronomy are research focus. The fast damage-free operation, autonomous navigation for complex environments, target detection for complex backgrounds, and special design for agricultural robots are considered to be the key technology of agricultural robot development, and the development path is given. Finally, robot-crop interaction simulation, big data support, and artificial intelligence are regarded as paths to realize the breakthrough of key agricultural robot technologies. The summary and prospect of this paper are of positive significance to promote the overall development of agricultural robot technology.

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Section: Development Of Agricultural Monitoring Robots 221 Monitoring Robots In Crop Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Jin¹,

Liu²,

Xu³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

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“…In existing works for dairy cattle complexes, the mobile base moves along a metal belt, along which the mobile robot is oriented by means of inductive sensors. If the robot deviates from the metal belt during its operation, telemetry signals from the inductive sensors recognize the direction of its deviation from the trajectory and send a signal to the robot controller to return it to the correct path [25][26][27].…”

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Development Results of a Cross-Platform Positioning System for a Robotics Feed System at a Dairy Cattle Complex

Pavkin,

Nikitin,

Shilin

et al. 2023

Agriculture

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Practical experience demonstrates that the development of agriculture is following the path of automating and robotizing operational processes. The operation of feed pushing in the feeding alley is an integral part of the feeding process and significantly impacts dairy cattle productivity. The aim of this research is to develop an algorithm for automatic positioning and a mobile remote-control system for a wheeled robot on a dairy farm. The kinematic and dynamic motion characteristics of the wheeled robot were obtained using software that allows simulation of physical processes in an artificial environment. The mobile application was developed using Swift tools, with the preliminary visualization of interfaces and graphic design. The system uses technical vision based on RGB cameras and programmed color filters and is responsible for the automatic positioning of the feed-pusher robot. This system made it possible to eliminate the inductive sensors from the system and suspend the labor effort required for assembling the contour wire of the feed alley. By assessing the interaction between the mobile app and the feed pusher via the base station connected to the Internet and located on the farm, the efficiency and accuracy of the feedback was measured. Furthermore, remote changes in the operating regime of the robot (start date) were proven to be achievable, and the productiveness of the food supplement dispenser also became manageable.

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Robotic Tankette for Intelligent Bioenergy Agriculture: Design, Development and Field Tests

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Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Development status and trend of agricultural robot technology

Development Results of a Cross-Platform Positioning System for a Robotics Feed System at a Dairy Cattle Complex

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