Project description
The application of robotics in agriculture is part of the recent trends of automating the tasks and the activities of people, which are characterized by increased physical effort. Recent robotics trends are also including automation of processes that can be harmful to human health. On the other hand, cooperation and coordination are modern concepts in the development of robotics systems. Coopration means information exchange between the robots regarding their condition and their position measurements, exchange of contextual information such as weather, temperature, wind, atmospheric humidity, etc, exchange of contextual information on the presence of certain kinds of pests on field, protection measures to be taken, etc.
A typical example of cooperation between the robots is a mobile robot on the ground and in the air. Such a robot system is characterized by complementarity. The information that the mobile robot on the ground is unable to gather, are available from the aerial vehicle and vice versa, the details regarding the state of the field with a certain plant, are provided by the mobile robot on the ground.
Coordination includes coordinated planning of the flying trajectory for the aerial vehicle and the movement trajectory for the mobile robot on the ground. Coordination should enable limiting of the error in determination of the navigation parameters (position, velocity and orientation) of the aerial vehicle and the mobile robot on the ground.
This project foresees usage of field mobile robot and aerial vehicle.
The development of techniques for cooperative localization and mapping will be directed towards research in the following areas: