Agri-Cost-Maps - Integration of Environmental Constraints into Navigation Systems for Agricultural Robots

Raja Ponnambalam, Vignesh, Pulido Fentanes, Jaime, Das, Gautham , Cielniak, Grzegorz, Omholt Gjevestad, Jon Glenn and From, Pål Johan (2020) Agri-Cost-Maps - Integration of Environmental Constraints into Navigation Systems for Agricultural Robots. In: 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 20-23 Apr, 2020, Singapore, Singapore.

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Abstract

Robust navigation is a key ability for agricultural robots. Such robots must operate safely minimizing their impact on the soil and avoiding crop damage. This paper proposes a method for unified incorporation of the application-specific constraints into the navigation system of robots deployed in different agricultural environments. The constraints are incorporated as an additional cost-map layer into the ROS navigation stack. These so-called Agri-Cost-Maps facilitate the transition from the tailored navigation systems typical for the current generation of agricultural robots to a more flexible ROS-based navigation framework that can be easily deployed for different agricultural applications. We demonstrate the applicability of this framework in three different agricultural scenarios, evaluate its benefits in simulation and demonstrate its validity in a real-world setting.

Keywords:Agricultural Automation, Constraints, Navigation Systems, Motion and Path Planning
Subjects:H Engineering > H670 Robotics and Cybernetics
H Engineering > H671 Robotics
Divisions:College of Science > School of Computer Science
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Deposited On:17 Dec 2020 18:25

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