Agricultural Robotics Portal

	Agricultural Robotics Portal
	There is increasing awareness and development of agricultural robots around the world. In these pages I will try to bring together the links to projects that I am aware of. If you know of any links not included here, please let me know!
	Autonomous Crop Treatment Vehicle (1993-1996) Name: ACTV. Champion: Nick Tillett Type: Two wheel drive, differential steer Tillett and Hague Technology Ltd
	The Weedy robot from the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Germany Name: Weedy. Champion: Arno Ruckelshausen Type: Four wheel drive / Four wheel steer A related paper can be found here (in German)
	The autonomous tractor developed at Copenhagen University in Denmark. Name: Hako. Champion: Hans Griepentrog Type: Rear wheel drive / Front wheel steer modified grounds tractor Power: 27hp Diesel Related projects: See RoboWeed and Safe and Reliable Notes: Standard front, centre and rear linkages allow multiple implements to be attached. Details can also be found on these pages here.
	The autonomous Christmas tree weeder developed at Copenhagen University in Denmark. Name: ACW. Champion: Henrik Have Type: Rear wheel drive / Front wheel steer modified grass cutter Power: 9 kW Petrol Notes: Retractable side cutter Details can also be found on these pages here.
	The Supportive Autonomous Vehicle for AGriculturE built my MSc students at the Piraeus Institute of Technology, Greece in collaboration with University of Thessaly. Name: SAVAGE. Champions: Kostas Tressos & Ioannis Andreou Type: 4WD / 4WS portal Power: 4x200W electric motors Notes: simple mechanical design allowed fabrication by blacksmith.
	The Autonomous Platform and Information system. Originally built by 2 MSc Students at the Danish Technical University (Mobile Robot for Weeding). Their thesis can be found here. Further work was carried out on the API design by 3 MSc students at Aalborg university. Name: API. Champion:? Type: 4WD / 4WS portal Power: Battery + 4x?W wheel motors Related projects: See the Agrobotics project and the ACROSS project. Notes: Two versions were made
	The Hortibot, an integration between the Spider grass cutter and the API built at DIAS in Denmark. Videos can be found here. Name: Hortibot. Champion: Rasmus Jørgensen Type: 4WD / 4WS modified grass cutter Power: 13kW Petrol. Notes: Modified to allow rotation, smart micro sprayer added.
	The FieldRobot event. Although technically not a robot in itself the annual FieldRobot event does promote many good agricultural robots.
	Weeding robot developed at Wageningen UR by Tijmen Bakker. (Presentation) Name: ?. Champion: Tijmen Bakker Type: 4WD / 4WS Portal tractor Power: Diesel engine Notes: Tijmen successfully defended his PhD 13 Feb 2009
	The SlugBot was developed to investigate the issues of energetic autonomy, by harvesting slugs and putting them into a digester to power the robot! Name: SlugBot. Champion: Ian Kelly Type: 4WD skid steer Power: (2 slugs per hour? ;) Notes: See also EcoBots
	EcoBots I and II developed at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK, use microbial fuel cells to power themselves - but very slowly. Name: EcoBot. Champion: Chris Melhuish Type: 2WD differential steer Power: Dead flies Notes:
	The Halmstad weeding robot, Sweden. Name: ?. Champion: Albert-Jan Baerveldt / Björn Åstrand Type: Rear wheel drive / Front wheel steer Power: ? Petrol engine Notes: Vision guidance and plant recognition with mechanical weeding
	The Modulaire tractor was designed as a remote controlled tractor in the 1990s. Nine were built in Finland and one was modified for GPS control. Here is a movie. (DivX, 4MB) Name: Modulaire. Champion:? Type: tracks Power: 40hp Notes: Front and rear linkages
	Autonomous guidance projects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Name:? Champion: Qin Zhang Type: Rear wheel drive / Front wheel steer Power: ? Notes: Conventional tractor modified for automatic steering
	The AgRover robot being developed at Iowa State University, USA Name: AgRover. Champion: Lie Tang Type: Four wheel drive / Four wheel steer Power: Battery + 4 wheel motors Notes: Self levelling frame
	The Skinny Boy robot being developed at USP san Carlos, (with EMBRAPA) Brazil. Name: Skinny Boy. Champion: Ricardo Inamasu Type: Four wheel drive / Four wheel steer Power: Battery + 4 wheel motors Notes: large stable space frame