3 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
W-RIZZ: A Weakly-Supervised Framework for Relative Traversability Estimation in Mobile Robotics
Andre Schreiber, Arun N. Sivakumar, Peter Du +3
Successful deployment of mobile robots in unstructured domains requires an understanding of the environment and terrain to avoid hazardous areas, getting stuck, and colliding with…
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…