Agrobotics


A Software Framework for Agricultural Robotic Systems
To improve the efficiency of developed agriculture in a sustainable way new concepts are being developed. One hypothesis is that a paradigm shift towards multiple small autonomous machines would be more efficient in terms of environmental impact, precision, and investment, and allow care and management of crops in novel ways.

Successful development of such vehicles calls for a software framework that can handle the complex, dynamic and semi-natural environment specific to agricultural fields. We set up a context for investigating and developing such novel software architecture. The challenge involves establishing the basis for understanding of desirable agent behaviours; we do this by analysing and defining operational tasks to be performed by such a vehicle.

 
Participants
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Engineering
The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
The Danish Technical University
Aalborg University

Project Co-ordinator
Head of research unit Thomas Bak, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Engineering

For further details on the Agrobotic research project take a look at the Project homepage 


December 2004

Photo by Henning T. Søgaard