AgriRobot: Autonomous agricultural robot system for precision spraying

农业机器人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，以应对当前农业面临的挑战，包括中国、英国等国家和地区的农业工人短缺;果园和农场效率低下;操作人员面临风险;环境污染;水果农药残留。开发的农业机器人系统可以在果园或农场中自动成行行走，不会与树木/植物/人发生碰撞，也可以智能操纵从一行改变到另一行;所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，提供了一种独特且精确的喷洒操作，在需要时仅施用必要量的农药，从而导致更有效的喷洒，同时减少了对操作人员的需求。

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.