Flower Interaction Subsystem for a Precision Pollination Robot

06/21/2019
by   Jared Strader, et al.
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Robotic pollinators not only can aid farmers by providing more cost effective and stable methods for pollinating plants but also benefit crop production in environments not suitable for bees such as greenhouses, growth chambers, and in outer space. Robotic pollination requires a high degree of precision and autonomy but few systems have addressed both of these aspects in practice. In this paper, a fully autonomous robot is presented, capable of precise pollination of individual small flowers. Experimental results show that the proposed system is able to achieve a 93.1 'pollination' success rate tested with high-fidelity artificial flowers.

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