Application: Agriculture Robotics

Description

Agriculture Robotics are used in smart farming to collect high-resolution field data using ground-based or aerial based sensors which is collected into a central advisory unit. The data is interpreted and information is extracted to provide decisions and actions to the field robots. Agricultural field robots are used for tilling, soil analysis, seeding, transplanting, crop scouting, pest control, weed removal and harvesting(identify ripe versus unripe plants):
Some of the key agriculture robotics applications fit into the following sub-categories:
– Field scouting and data collection – process of continuously monitoring the field to acquire information on the plant status, disease incidence, and infestations affecting crop growth.
– Precision Weed Control and targeted spraying
– Automated Crop Harvesting
– Planting and Seeding

Devices

Camera types used on agrobots:
- RGB cameras - extensively used in agricultural machine vision applications for fruit/plant detection, yield prediction, segmentation tasks, disease detection, ripeness detection, weed detection and insects detection
- Hyperspectral, thermal, or ultrasonic cameras - typically provide better results than conventional RGB color images
- Stereoscopic cameras - provides 3D plant structure information (dimension of crops (depth information, crop height, leaf shape, leaf area etc.))

Critical factor is the camera’s resolution, which should be high enough to capture the details of the scene especially in the cases of insect and disease detection.
GPS for autonomous navigation in open-field cultivation environments
Robotic data collection platform equipped with RADAR, liDAR, ultrasonic radar sensors, spectrometers, fluorometers

KPIs

KPI	Value
Communication Service Availability	Medium: 90 - 95%
Criticality	Non-critical
Priority Service (NS/EP)	No
Service Continuity	Not required
Mobility	Pedestrian: > 0 km/h to 10 km/h
Communication Direction	Two-way
Data Reporting Mode	Hybrid driven