Abstract
Robotics is expected to play a major role in the agricultural domain, and often multi-robot systems and collaborative approaches are mentioned as potential solutions to improve efficiency and system robustness. Among the multi-robot approaches, swarm robotics stresses aspects like flexibility, scalability and robustness in solving complex tasks, and is considered very relevant for precision farming and large-scale agricultural applications. However, swarm robotics research is still confined into the lab, and no application in the field is currently available. In this paper, we describe a roadmap to bring swarm robotics to the field within the domain of weed control problems. This roadmap is implemented within the experiment SAGA, founded within the context of the ECORD++ EU Project. Together with the experiment concept, we introduce baseline results for the target scenario of monitoring and mapping weed in a field by means of a swarm of UAVs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2017 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781538629390 |
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| Publication status | Published - 20 Oct 2017 |
| Event | 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2017 - Lecce, Italy Duration: 29 Aug 2017 → 1 Sept 2017 |
Conference
| Conference | 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Lecce |
| Period | 29/08/17 → 1/09/17 |