IBEX2: Autonomous robot weed sprayer for less favoured areas

IBEX2是一种极具机动性的自主式除草系统。与大多数以前的农业机器人不同，它在不太受欢迎的农田上作业，即绵羊和乳制品、起伏的丘陵农场和蕨类覆盖的沼泽地。IBEX2是一种长约1米的自动驾驶履带式车辆，基于拆弹机器人。它的软件使用一套车载距离传感器，结合操作系统地图和卫星图像的先验知识，从车载摄像头和地形导航执行杂草识别。软件完全基于商业自主系统中现有的、现在的标准方法。一个由40名真正的农民组成的用户小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尽快和简单地对现有的现成研究和部件进行商业和技术可行性研究。

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.