| Development of agricultural wheeled robotic platform for row crops |
| Paper ID : 1416-NICAME1402 |
| Authors: |
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Hossein Behfar *1, fahime hashemi2 1Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran 2Qazvin azad university |
| Abstract: |
| The most effective way to improve the food production problem in the world is to increase crop yield. Human labors are subject to health problems such as the Coronavirus pandemic that impose several forms of restriction of agricultural activities. So farmers are looking for new ways to automate their farms and reduce human intervention. They have to use new technologies such as precision agriculture as a tools of improving agricultural operations. Robotics is considered as one of the three main areas of precision agriculture. Mobile robots based on independent steering devices offer more benefits regarding, adaptability to different crops, maneuverability and adaptability to terrain. Ground mobile robots would be necessary for smart farms and should be improved using scientific principles. In this research main purpose is to develop a general multi-task robotic platform for row crops. This platform should be modular to perform several operations such as precision inter-row, intra-row weeding, spot spraying and harvesting. The robotic platform was able to find the row with mean error of 12mm with standard deviation of 22mm for sugar beet crop. |
| Keywords: |
| robot, image processing, guidance, modular platform |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Oral Presentation) |
