Reducing the environmental impact of agriculture with robotics
summary
Robotti is a 3.4‑ton autonomous implement handler (two 150 Kubota engines) deployed as 30+ robots across four continents, using RTK GPS and sub-inch precision fused IMU, three onboard computers (VBOX‑3150 running Ubuntu/ROS, X‑90 safety controller, NVIDIA Xavier for vision). Cloud backend migrates to AWS in six months: S3/Lambda + EC2 auto‑scaling Java servlets for planning, RDS for plans and DynamoDB for telemetry, RoboMaker and a Chrono‑based soil simulator for 365‑day testing. Image pipeline ingests rosbags (1/30 frames uploaded), produces maps for targeted spraying and measurable chemical savings.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Agriculture 1.0 - Intelligent autonomous workforce
- 3:47Our Robotti
- 5:05Our current fleet
- 5:59Our web application
- 7:17Our onboard terminal and remote
- 9:05Creating and storing a plan
- 10:40Starting an operation
- 12:56Monitoring live operations
- 17:38All the world's a test track Chrono physics engine
- 18:46Deployment simulation
- 20:31Collaborative operations Serial operations
- 21:48Cloud state machine
- 26:44Image capture architecture
- 28:34Agriculture 4.0 in action
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