PITCH: Trimbot2020Angelo Mencarelli

HORTIVERSUM, ZOETERMEER

21 FEBRUARI 2018

WHYMaintenance of a garden is labour-intensive.

Busy or old or otherwise weakened people could benefit from the automation of this task.

It is a consumer robotics project, but also the (large) municipal gardens or business gardens could benefit.

Potential market route: Bosch partnership (using Bosch lawn mower robot base).

Knowledge gap: Algorithms for visual servoing to and interaction with compliant (bush)

surfaces;

Algorithms for close by garden scene understanding and navigation.

HOWEU project with consortium from 4 different countries (United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland).

Co-financed by Topsector T&U.

Robot and target localisation.

Shape analysis of garden objects.

Robot navigation over varying terrain avoiding obstacles.

Vision-controlled arm motion planning to perform cutting (of compliant surfaces).

Autonomous completion of user-selected tasks.

WHAT

Design and construction of the manipulator and cutting tools capable of performing the specified tasks.

Motion planning for the manipulator.

implementation of a navigation and trimming servoing mechanism.

Support decisions on when and where to trim each plant using functional-structural plant models (FSPM).

NEED

More parallel research projects to speed up the development.

Additional focus on:Human - Robot Collaboration;

Swarm Robotics;

User safety;

Acceptance by Growers and Society;

Modified Cultivation Systems.

Transfer knowledge and technological results to other application domains.

More cooperation with Holland Robotics.

MORE INFOWageningen University & Research

Jochen Hemming, jochen.hemming@wur.nl +31 (0)317-486710

Angelo Mencarelli, angelo.mencarelli@wur.nl +31 (0)317-483425

P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands

www.wur.nl

www.agrofoodrobotics.nl

www.trimbot2020.org

TrimBot2020 has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 688007 and is addressing Objective ICT-24-2015: ICT 2015 – Information and Communications Technologies: Robotics.