2 papers
cs.RO2022
Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants
Mark Presten, Rishi Parikh, Shrey Aeron +6
Polyculture farming has environmental advantages but requires substantially more pruning than monoculture farming. We present novel hardware and algorithms for automated pruning. U…
cs.RO2021
AlphaGarden: Learning to Autonomously Tend a Polyculture Garden
Mark Presten, Yahav Avigal, Mark Theis +9
This paper presents AlphaGarden: an autonomous polyculture garden that prunes and irrigates living plants in a 1.5m x 3.0m physical testbed. AlphaGarden uses an overhead camera and…