Robots Tend a Garden

On the long run, the robot should execute the following task in response to the status of the plants:

-watering

-weeding

-estimating plant status (number of fruits, maturity, size)

-cleaning (removing dead leaves)

During the class of 2008, the students achieved autonomous navigation to pots, inverse kinematics for watering and approaching known fruit locations, visual servoing to red fruits, recognition of green and red fruit using boosting, and networking between plants and robots using wireless mesh networks.

Posted by Tom Stilson