From Map To Mission - Sensor Based Mapping, Mission Definition and Execution for Agricultural Robots

The tendency over the last years has been to create larger and larger agricultural machines. To reduce the effects of soil compaction and to achieve other optimized and efficient crop production operations the farmer can use small tractors instead of large ones. If the farmer replaces one large machine with ten small machines, he could diminish the soil compaction. If the transition from large to small machines should be economically viable the small machines have to be autonomous, so they can be controlled and supervised by one operator.

The data which the autonomous platforms collect can be used for phenotyping for research as well as treatment operations on a farm. If the platform is equipped with sensor who are capable of plant parameters they can all be transferred to a FMIS.

The aim of this project is to make the use of autonomous platform in agriculture more simple, both for farmers and researchers. By utilising and extending existing tools from respectively robotics and agriculture.