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GRAPE: Ground Robot for vineyArd Monitoring and ProtEction

2017; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-70833-1_21

2194-5357

Ferran Roure, Germán Sáez i Moreno, Marcel Soler, Davide Faconti, Daniel Serrano, Pietro Astolfi, Gianluca Bardaro, A. Gabrielli, Luca Bascetta, Matteo Matteucci,

Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Precision agriculture is a key topic in robotics. The incursion of robots in the agriculture domain has become a reality in recent years. Nowadays, robotics is not only used for crop monitoring like for instance the use of aerial robots for growth control. Robots are increasingly playing key role in the daily life of the farmers and producers. Heavy tasks like pruning, seeding or even precise harvesting are the target topics of the robotics in agriculture. In this paper we present the ongoing work of GRAPE project, founded by Echord++ program from European Commission. GRAPE (Ground Robot for vineyArd Monitoring and ProtEction) consists in the automatic pheromone dispenser distribution for matting disruption in vineyards using an autonomous ground robot equipped with a robotic arm. GRAPE focuses on developing the on-board intelligence and the required algorithms, using commercial hardware. The consortium of the project is composed by Eurecat Technology Center [5], University Politecnico di Milano [13] and Vitirover [18].