Description du projet
Former des robots à éliminer les mauvaises herbes des exploitations laitières
Les producteurs laitiers cherchent toujours des solutions à long terme pour lutter contre les mauvaises herbes qui envahissent toujours leurs pâturages. Bien que les herbicides soient efficaces, ils contaminent le sol, l’eau, la nourriture et l’air. Le projet GALIRUMI, financé par l’UE, développera une solution de désherbage automatisée pour un contrôle sans herbicide des mauvaises herbes dans les exploitations laitières. En éliminant le recours aux herbicides, les producteurs laitiers pourront adopter une production biologique. Le projet développera et fera la démonstration de cette nouvelle technologie de lutte contre les mauvaises herbes, qui utilise des véhicules autonomes, la vision par ordinateur et un robot en tant que service pour une exploitation laitière de précision fondée sur la navigation précise fournie par le système mondial de navigation par satellite européen.
Objectif
Agriculture provides humans with necessary food and raw materials, but its environmental impact is unacceptably high. Much effort is underway to make agriculture more sustainable, for example through precision agriculture or organic agriculture. In all of agriculture, controlling weeds is a major issue. Weed control with herbicides leads to a large environmental impact. Manual weed control leads to back-breaking labour, high labour costs, and difficulties of finding sufficient labour.
The main objective of GALIRUMI is to deliver robot weeding for herbicide-free weed control in dairy farming. Robotic weeding will reduce the environmental impact of dairy farming by eliminating herbicide use and reducing exposure of farm workers to herbicides. It will also remove an important obstacle for dairy farmers to switch to organic production, thereby contributing to an increase in production of organically produced milk and higher incomes for farmers.
GALIRUMI will develop and demonstrate a number of innovative technologies in weed detection, weed degradation, autonomous vehicles and robot-as-a-service for precision dairy farming based on precise navigation provided by EGNSS. Several areas of expertise are needed for successful development of practical robotic weeding:
• EGNSS
• Computer vision for weed detection
• Construction of farm machinery
• Providing services to farmers
• Weed science
• Dairy research
The robotic weeding control system is the end product that GALIRUMI is aiming to put into practice and commercialise, proposed by dock weeding as a service either by:
• Laser defoliation system using small robot that requires frequent application in the field.
• Medium sized robot system with an electrocution tool that requires single season application in the field.
GALIRUMI will significantly reduce manual labour for weeding, weed management cost, damage to grassland from the application of herbicide, impact of dairy farming on the environment and dairy cow discomfort
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedairy
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
39011 Santander
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.