2 papers
cs.RO2024
CropNav: a Framework for Autonomous Navigation in Real Farms
Mateus Valverde Gasparino, Vitor Akihiro Hisano Higuti, Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar +3
Small robots that can operate under the plant canopy can enable new possibilities in agriculture. However, unlike larger autonomous tractors, autonomous navigation for such under c…
cs.RO2024
Lessons from Deploying CropFollow++: Under-Canopy Agricultural Navigation with Keypoints
Arun N. Sivakumar, Mateus V. Gasparino, Michael McGuire +3
We present a vision-based navigation system for under-canopy agricultural robots using semantic keypoints. Autonomous under-canopy navigation is challenging due to the tight spacin…