AgriRobot: Autonomous agricultural robot system for precision spraying

AgriRobot：用于精准喷洒的自主农业机器人系统

• 批准号: 104016
• 金额: $ 49.42万
• 依托单位: INNOVA INTEGRA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104016
• 关键词: AgriRobot; Autonomous; agricultural; robot; system

The AgriRobot project will extend and apply the cutting-edge technology developments from driverless vehicles, robotics, and AI to develop a highly innovative agricultural robot system to deal with the current challenges in agriculture that include the shortage of farm workers in China, UK and other countries and regions; lack of efficiency in orchards and farms; risks to operators; environment pollution; and pesticides residue in fruits. The developed agricultural robot system can automatically travel in a row in orchards or farms without collisions with trees/plants/people, and also can intelligently manoeuvre to change from one row to another; The developed sensor-based variable-rate air-assisted sprayer can analyse the presence, size, shape, and density of target trees/plants, providing a unique and precision spraying operation applying only the necessary amount of pesticide when needed, leading to more efficient spraying while reducing the demand of human operators.

AgriRobot项目将延伸和应用无人驾驶汽车、机器人和人工智能等前沿技术发展，开发高度创新的农业机器人系统，以应对当前中国、英国等国家和地区农业工人短缺等农业挑战；果园和农场效率低下；运营商面临的风险；环境污染；以及水果中的农药残留。开发的农业机器人系统可以在果园或农场自动成排行驶，不与树木/植物/人发生碰撞，还可以智能操纵从一排换到另一排；开发的基于传感器的可变速率空气辅助喷雾器可以分析目标树木/植物的存在、大小、形状和密度，提供独特而精确的喷雾操作，在需要时仅施用必要量的农药，从而提高喷雾效率，同时减少对操作人员的需求。