IBEX2: Autonomous robot weed sprayer for less favoured areas

IBEX2是一种极移动性的自动除草系统。与之前的大多数农业机器人不同，它在不太受欢迎的农田上运行，比如羊和奶牛，起伏的丘陵农场，以及蕨类植物覆盖的沼地。IBEX2是一种大约1米长的自动驾驶履带式车辆，基于拆弹机器人。该公司的软件通过车载摄像头进行杂草识别，并使用一套车载距离传感器以及来自操作系统地图和卫星图像的先验知识进行地形导航。软件完全基于商业自治系统中现有的、现在标准的方法。一个由40名真正的农民组成的用户组通过一系列的演示和讨论不断地反馈到设计中。该项目没有学术合作伙伴，其方法是纯粹专注于对现有的、现成的研究和组件进行商业和技术可行性研究，尽可能快速和简单。

IBEX2 is an extreme mobility autonomous weed spraying system. Unlike most previous agribots it operates on Less Favoured Areas of farm land, i.e. sheep and dairy, undulating and hilly farms, and bracken-covered moorland. IBEX2 is a self-driving tracked vehicle approximately 1m long, based on bomb disposal robots. Its software performs weed recognition from on-board cameras and terrain navigation using a suite of on-board range sensors coupled with prior knowledge from OS maps and satellite images. Software is based entirely on existing, now-standard approaches as found in commercial autonomous systems. A user group of 40 real farmers feeds back continually into the design via a series of demos and discussions. The project has no academic partners and its approach is to focus purely on producing commercial and technical feasibility studies of existing, off-the-shelf research and components as quickly and simply as possible.