Description du projet
Augmenter la polyvalence des robots agricoles
Les robots agricoles sont de plus en plus adoptés afin d’améliorer la production agricole. Au vu du nombre de tâches discrètes à automatiser, la flexibilité des solutions actuelles s’en voit fortement réduite, ce qui a une incidence sur leur efficacité et limite leur adoption. Le projet FLEXIGROBOTS, financé par l’UE, entend mettre en place une plateforme qui aidera à construire des systèmes multirobots hétérogènes et améliorera considérablement la flexibilité, dans la mesure où les robots existants pourront exécuter de nombreuses tâches différentes. Cette plateforme contribuera à produire des données de plus grande valeur à partir d’un large éventail de sources et de capteurs, ce qui augmentera l’autonomie et la précision opérationnelles tout en réduisant considérablement les coûts et en favorisant les investissements dans la robotique.
Objectif
Agricultural robotics solutions can integrate a variety of robots for a variety of monitoring and targeted intervention tasks, to increase farm productivity, efficiency and sustainability through support of automated precision farming operations. Despite the rising farmer investment in farm/agricultural robots, most deployable robotic systems are meant to automate only specific tasks. The wide variety of tasks that need to be fulfilled in a single precision agriculture operation or mission makes it extremely unprofitable to address its automation with task-specific robots. These challenges result in a lack of flexibility of current heterogeneous multi-robot systems that poses low returns on investment and high risks for farmers. In order to become cost-effective, heterogeneous multi-robot systems needs to become more flexible by employing more versatile (e.g. multi-task) robots which collaborate to accomplish complex missions; ensuring scalable human oversight and intervention through adaptive mission control mechanisms (e.g. without information overload /overwhelming effort from the farmer); allowing the farmer to profit from robotics operational data. FlexiGroBots proposes a Platform for developing heterogeneous multi-robot systems and applications which allows for i) more versatility by using the same robots for different observation and intervention tasks, in different missions, throughout the crop life cycle, ii) more cooperation between heterogeneous (ground and aerial) robots to accomplish more complex missions; iii) more valuable data to generate accurate insights into the fields, crops and robotics operations by combining data from IoT sensors, satellites and data collected by the robots; iv) more autonomy for real-time adaptation of mission plans as well as robot behaviour at the crop level, given operational conditions and real-time insights; v) more precision to carry out specific tasks in a very localized way, gaining accuracy and lowering costs.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technology
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
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