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A Systematic Approach to the Development of Long-Term Autonomous Robotic Systems for Agriculture

Tim Bohne; Gurunatraj Parthasarathy; Benjamin Kisliuk
In: Konferenzband der 43. GIL-Jahrestagung. GIL-Jahrestagung (GIL-2023), Resiliente Agri-Food-Systeme: Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze, February 13-14, Osnabrück, Germany, Pages 285-290, LNI, Vol. P-330, ISBN 978-3-88579-724-1, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, 2/2023.

Abstract

For robots to compete with conventional machinery in agriculture, improving their long-term autonomy seems necessary. In this article, we provide concepts and intermediate results of our work aimed at a long-term autonomous robotic system performing a plant monitoring task. Based on notions from the literature, we introduce a structured approach to defining long-term autonomy and report on the system we develop that meets this definition in practical experiments. Finally, we present intermediate results from simulation and discuss further avenues of research.

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