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Integrating Autonomous Aerial Scouting with Autonomous Ground Actuation to Reduce Chemical Pollution on Crop Soil
Año:2015
Áreas de investigación
  • Ingeniería eléctrica, electrónica y automática
Datos
Descripción
Many environmental problems cover large areas, often in rough terrain constrained by natural obstacles, which makes intervention difficult. New technologies, such as unmanned aerial units, may help to address this is-sue. Due to their suitability to access and easily cover large areas, unmanned aerial units may be used to inspect the terrain and make a first assessment of the affected areas; however, these platforms do not currently have the capability to implement intervention. This paper proposes integrating autonomous aerial inspection with ground intervention to address environmental problems. Aerial units may be used to easily obtain relevant data about the environment, and ground units may use this information to perform the intervention more efficiently. Furthermore, an overall system to manage these combined missions, com-posed of aerial inspections and ground interventions performed by autonomous robots, is proposed and implemented. The approach was tested on an agricultural scenario, in which the weeds in a crop had to be killed by spraying herbicide on them. The scenario was ad-dressed using a real mixed fleet composed of drones and tractors. The drones were used to inspect the field and to detect weeds and to provide the tractors the exact coordinates to only spray the weeds. This aerial and ground mission col-laboration saved a large amount of herbicide, significantly reducing the envi-ronmental pollution and the treatment cost.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
ROBOT 2015: SECOND IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE: ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS, VOL 2
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Lisboa (Portugal)
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
2194-5357
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-27149-1_4
Fecha inicio congreso
19/11/2015
Fecha fin congreso
21/11/2015
Desde la página
41
Hasta la página
53
Título de las actas
Advances in Intelligent systems and Computers. Vol2
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Robótica y Cibernética
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Centro de Automática y Robótica (CAR). Centro Mixto UPM-CSIC
  • Departamento: Automática, Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica e Informática Industrial