Ag bot project

[kaybykats]

Hi guys, I'm a final year mechanical engineering undergraduate student with a few years of experience in robotics since freshman year. For my thesis project, I am planning to build an agriculture robot, be it a flying drone, mobile robot, robotic arm, cable robot, etc.

Unfortunately, I am inexperienced and unfamiliar regarding agriculture of any kind. The interest came to me when I had some period of volunteering in rural farmlands 2 years ago. Ever since, I’ve wanted to build a bot for either labor assistance in the field, monitoring, precision agriculture, or others, and making it eco-friendly to protect local biodiversities, reduce pollution, and increase productivity.

For context, my robotics knowledge is still very minimal as my experience is only in university level robotics competitions. Though, I do plan to continue this project for the next few years for personal learning & interests, research, and later commercialization.

So, I’ve got two questions:

Do you guys have any problems and/or ideas for an agriculture bot (be it land, water, or air) that could help increase productivity and/or reduce climate changes caused by agriculture? (some examples of already-existing ones are Fendt Xaver, Small Robot Company, EcoRobotix)

Do you guys have any resources and references for forums, associations, institutes, etc. where I can have discussions and collaborate to design and build my agriculture bot?

I apologize for the vague questions as I am uneducated regarding agriculture and do not have networks to talk to about this, nor nearby farms (I live in the city). Though, I am open to any sort of agriculture branches if I can implement and have a few trials for it at a 200km radius near my area (Jakarta).

 

[PREES]

I have a caravan park and we would like to use a robot mower to cut the grass. The problem is that most current mowers rely on underground wires to define the area to cut. We would want some sort of GPS control/guidance and sensors so that the mower would stop prior to hitting an obstacle rather than waiting for contact before turning around! There would be significant cost saving even if we needed a number of mowers to cover the area. PM me if you need further assistance

 

[kaybykats]

Hi guys, I'm a final year mechanical engineering undergraduate student with a few years of experience in robotics since freshman year. For my thesis project, I am planning to build an agriculture robot, be it a flying drone, mobile robot, robotic arm, cable robot, etc.

Unfortunately, I am inexperienced and unfamiliar regarding agriculture of any kind. The interest came to me when I had some period of volunteering in rural farmlands 2 years ago. Ever since, I’ve wanted to build a bot for either labor assistance in the field, monitoring, precision agricultur tweakbox e, or others, and making it eco-friendly to protect local biodiversities, reduce pollution, and increase productivity.

For context, my robotics knowledge is still very minimal as my experience is only in university level robotics competitions. Though, I do plan to continue this pr tutuapp oject for the next few years for personal learning & interests, research, and later commercialization.

So, I’ve got two questions:

Do you guys have any problems and/or ideas for an agriculture bot (be it land, water, or air) that could help increase productivity and/or reduce climate chang appvalley es caused by agriculture? (some examples of already-existing ones are Fendt Xaver, Small Robot Company, EcoRobotix)

Do you guys have any resources and references for forums, associations, institutes, etc. where I can have discussions and collaborate to design and build my agriculture bot?

I apologize for the vague questions as I am uneducated regarding agriculture and do not have networks to talk to about this, nor nearby farms (I live in the city). Though, I am open to any sort of agriculture branches if I can implement and have a few trials for it at a 200km radius near my area (Jakarta).

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