Application of Robot Formation Scheme for Screening Solar Energy in a Greenhouse

نویسندگان

  • George K. Fourlas
  • Konstantinos Kalovrektis
  • Evangelos Fountas
چکیده

Many agricultural and especially greenhouse applications like plant inspection, data gathering, spraying and selective harvesting could be performed by robots. In this paper multiple nonholonomic robots are used in order to create a desired formation scheme for screening solar energy in a greenhouse through data gathering. The formation consists from a leader and a team member equipped with appropriate sensors. Each robot is dedicated to its mission in the greenhouse that is predefined by the requirements of the application. The feasibility of the proposed application includes experimental results with three unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). Keywords—Greenhouses application, robot formation, solar energy.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009