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Deepfield RoboticsA Bosch Start-Up Company

Agricultural Robotics at Deepfield Robotics

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Our goal: Explore and validate new business opportunities for Bosch in Agriculture. “Innovative technologies towards a more sustainable farming“

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Why Start-up?Trends recognized early at corporate research but sometimes facing transfer barriers in commercialization

Domestic robots

comfort, quality of life

Personal mobility

comfort and safety

Human-robot collaboration

Productivity

Field robotics

Preserving resources

New technology

New customers

New busin. model

3 dimensions of

uncertainty:

2 dimensions new

no transfer!(from research to business unit)

☑

???

What about

agricultural

robotics?

☑☑

2015-…

2008-2011

2011-2014

Challenges

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Megatrends lead to dramatic changes in agriculture

Shortage of resources

‒ Arable land: 1950: 0.52 ha/pers. vs. 2000: 0.26 ha/pers.

‒ Fertilizers, e.g. phosphor availability: 50 – 380 years

‒ Herbicides: (multiple) herbicide resistances; no new active

chemical mechanisms found in last 30 years;

‒ Water: 70% of freshwater consumed in agriculture

‒ Skilled labor and seasonal workers

Growing population: 9.1 bn. people until 2050

Eating habits are changing, e.g. organic farming

Agriculture most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change but

also one of its reasons

Sustainability of way of cultivation becomes essential

Bosch and agriculture?

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Not completely new though…

Motivation

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Future Agriculture (Farming 4.0, Smart Farming, Data-driven agriculture, Cyber Physical System,…)

Trends/Drivers: Shortage of resources (arable land,

fertilizers, water, skilled labor), growing population, changing

eating habits, climate change, herbicide resistances, …

Agriculture = Repetitive tasks w/ sequential, logical

processes under uncertain & changing environ. conditions [prime example for era of industry 4.0, i.e. (sensor-/actuator) networks and

automation]

Solution: “Closing feedback loops” to increase/ensure

quality and/or yield

source: thechinainvestors.com

Data acquisition

Data analytics / interpretation

acting/reacting

System / environment

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Four core domains of Deepfield Robotics:Deepfield Robotics in a nut-shell

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Weedmobile

BoniRob v3

Fieldmobile

Deepfield Robotics | BOSP/PAA | ® Robert Bosch GmbH 2016.

Phenotyping-App Weeding-AppPenetrometer-AppPrecision-Spraying-App

© Brian Sipple, Udo Flohr MiT Tech Review

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Phenotyping

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Digitalization in agricultureDeepfield Robotics in a nut-shell

Deepfield® Connect: Connectivity solutions (IoT)

Tractor implementRobotic Field Mobile

Deepfield® 4D-scan: Automated field trials

Stationary sensor networks as entry

point, robots emerging to

serve as mobile sensors and/or

actuators.

DeepField Connect

Beehive Monitoring

Many sources for data

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… online acquisition, lab & field tests, from experience/history, …

* * *

* * *robotics, automation, swarms,

drones

Connectiv-ity (IoT), sensors,

Cloud

satellites, historical

datafield trials

Mobile machinery,

processdata

Data acquisition

Data analytics / interpretation

acting/reacting

System / environment

ROS

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CC/PJ-FA

CC/ESA-NA

CC/PJ-AA

Collaborative Robotics

Technologies

CR/RTC1.1-NA

AutoBodBEG, NuP

Deepfield Robotics

CR/AEV

CR/RTC1.5-NA

Sensor & Radar

Development CC-DA/ESI3

SLAMCR/AEG

Intelligent transport

assistantCR/AEY2

© Kinova Robotics

Simulation (Rviz and Gazebo)

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Control and Diagnostics

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