Robotics for sustainable broad-acre agriculture

Ball, D; Ross, P; English, A; Patten, T; Upcroft, B; Fitch, R; Sukkarieh, S; Wyeth, G; Corke, P

Robotics for sustainable broad-acre agriculture

Ball, D Ross, P English, A Patten, T Upcroft, B Fitch, R

Sukkarieh, S Wyeth, G Corke, P

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Citation:: 2015, 105 pp. 439 - 453
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Ball, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ross, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	English, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Patten, T	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Upcroft, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fitch, R https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2215-5188	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Sukkarieh, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wyeth, G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Corke, P	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2015, 105 pp. 439 - 453	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9783319074870	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/120010
dc.description.abstract	© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. This paper describes the development of small low-cost cooperative robots for sustainable broad-acre agriculture to increase broad-acre crop production and reduce environmental impact. The current focus of the project is to use robotics to deal with resistant weeds, a critical problem for Australian farmers. To keep the overall system affordable our robot uses low-cost cameras and positioning sensors to perform a large scale coverage task while also avoiding obstacles. A multi-robot coordinator assigns parts of a given field to individual robots. The paper describes the modification of an electric vehicle for autonomy and experimental results from one real robot and twelve simulated robots working in coordination for approximately two hours on a 55 hectare field in Emerald Australia. Over this time the real robot ‘sprayed’ 6 hectares missing 2.6% and overlapping 9.7% within its assigned field partition, and successfully avoided three obstacles.	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/978-3-319-07488-7_30	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Industrial Engineering & Automation	en_US
dc.title	Robotics for sustainable broad-acre agriculture	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	105	en_US
utslib.for	080101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics	en_US
utslib.for	091303 Autonomous Vehicles	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CAS - Centre for Autonomous Systems
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	105	en_US

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. This paper describes the development of small low-cost cooperative robots for sustainable broad-acre agriculture to increase broad-acre crop production and reduce environmental impact. The current focus of the project is to use robotics to deal with resistant weeds, a critical problem for Australian farmers. To keep the overall system affordable our robot uses low-cost cameras and positioning sensors to perform a large scale coverage task while also avoiding obstacles. A multi-robot coordinator assigns parts of a given field to individual robots. The paper describes the modification of an electric vehicle for autonomy and experimental results from one real robot and twelve simulated robots working in coordination for approximately two hours on a 55 hectare field in Emerald Australia. Over this time the real robot ‘sprayed’ 6 hectares missing 2.6% and overlapping 9.7% within its assigned field partition, and successfully avoided three obstacles.

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