Researchers led by Moeen Ul Islam have presented Agibot, an open-source, modular and low-cost platform for agricultural robotics research and teaching, in a paper submitted to IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.
The platform has four-wheel independent swerve drive, swappable computing, distributed embedded control, several sensors and a configurable manipulator, run within a sense-plan-act-verify framework.
In row-crop tests under different light and soil conditions it followed lanes, moved between rows on its own, identified targets, dispensed seeds, handled plants and checked whether each task had succeeded, the authors report.
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Moeen Ul Islam
Robotics researcher
Moeen Ul Islam is first author of a paper on an open-source agricultural robot platform.
