User interface and coverage planner for agricultural robotics

Richards, D; Patten, T; Fitch, R; Ball, D; Sukkarieh, S

User interface and coverage planner for agricultural robotics

Richards, D Patten, T Fitch, R

Ball, D Sukkarieh, S

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Citation:: Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Richards, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Patten, T	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Fitch, R https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2215-5188	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ball, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Sukkarieh, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, 2015	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1448-2053	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121334
dc.description.abstract	Farmers are under growing pressure to increase production, a challenge that robotics has the potential to address. A possible solution is to replace large farm machinery with numerous smaller robots. However, with a large number of robots it will become increasingly time consuming for the farmer to monitor and control them all, hence the need for an effective user interface and automatic multi-robot coordination. This paper describes the design of a user interface and coverage planner suitable for controlling multiple robots for typical coverage style farm operations. The cross-platform user interface allows the farmer to specify their farm including fields, roads and docking stations. The coverage planner splits the workload between the robots and plans periodic docking. The results for the different multi-robot coverage strategies demonstrate the advantage of the robots sequentially moving between fields rather than freely moving between them. The multi-robot system has been used for a coverage task on a real farm for controlling two real robots and four simulated robots operating for two days.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA	en_US
dc.title	User interface and coverage planner for agricultural robotics	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.for	080101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics	en_US
utslib.for	091303 Autonomous Vehicles	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CAS - Centre for Autonomous Systems
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Abstract:

Farmers are under growing pressure to increase production, a challenge that robotics has the potential to address. A possible solution is to replace large farm machinery with numerous smaller robots. However, with a large number of robots it will become increasingly time consuming for the farmer to monitor and control them all, hence the need for an effective user interface and automatic multi-robot coordination. This paper describes the design of a user interface and coverage planner suitable for controlling multiple robots for typical coverage style farm operations. The cross-platform user interface allows the farmer to specify their farm including fields, roads and docking stations. The coverage planner splits the workload between the robots and plans periodic docking. The results for the different multi-robot coverage strategies demonstrate the advantage of the robots sequentially moving between fields rather than freely moving between them. The multi-robot system has been used for a coverage task on a real farm for controlling two real robots and four simulated robots operating for two days.

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