Advancing Robotics in the Australian Vegetable Industry
From 2016-2019, a team from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney undertook projects focusing on advancing the application of robotics, intelligent sensing systems, precision agriculture automation, and more in Australia’s vegetable industry, reports FreshPlaza.
In November 2019, Vegetables Australia spoke to Project Lead Professor Salah Sukkarieh about the research, and the potential impact it has for the future of on-farm robotic automation. Over the past three years, many vegetable industry members would have seen the LadyBird and RIPPA (Robot for Intelligent Perception and Precision Application) robots in both trial-farm and commercial-farm settings.
A strategic levy investment under the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund, using autonomous systems to guide vegetable decision making on-farm (VG15003) was undertaken to research and develop novel sensors, algorithms and robotic technologies that would help reduce production cost and increase on-farm productivity in the vegetable industry, in particular brassica, lettuce, and baby leaf.
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