Descripción del proyecto
Los nuevos peones agrícolas robóticos
Desde el comienzo del siglo XX, se han realizado múltiples intentos de comercializar el trabajo agrícola y aumentar la productividad. Si bien la mano de obra constituye un componente esencial de cualquier actividad agrícola, el desarrollo de tecnologías innovadoras guiadas por datos y basadas en la robótica y la inteligencia artificial es fundamental para la agricultura sostenible del futuro. En el proyecto CANOPIES, financiado con fondos europeos, se examinará un nuevo paradigma de la colaboración entre personas y robots en el campo mediante un caso de prueba específico: las operaciones de vendimia y poda en viñedos de uva de mesa durante cuatro años. Sus investigadores demostrarán como un equipo de robots diferentes, unos con brazos robóticos y otros con capacidad de porteo, trabajaran junto con peones agrícolas, lo que posibilitará nuevas perspectivas en la gestión de cultivos y explotaciones agrarias.
Objetivo
In CANOPIES, our goal is to develop a novel collaborative human-robot paradigm addressing the challenges of Human Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Collaboration in the unstructured highly dynamic outdoor environment of permanent crop farming (Agri-Food Area). Our approach will be demonstrated through an integrated system composed by farming robots and logistics robots with a real-world validation of two economically relevant agronomic operations within a table-grape vineyard: harvesting and pruning. CANOPIES represents the first attempt to introduce a collaborative paradigm in the field of precision agriculture for permanent crops where farmworkers can efficiently work together with teams of robots to perform agronomic interventions, like harvesting or pruning in table-grape vineyards. Both operations require complex processes of perception, communication, shared planning in agreement, prediction of human intentions, interaction and action. But also, both agronomic operations should be done in real life conditions, that is, in changing illumination and cast shadows, changing agronomic situations, where the vine branches or grapes can make it difficult to harvest or prune in a safe manner, due to the robot physical proximity to the human, while operating in real time. CANOPIES ambition will be achieved by introducing: i) novel human-robot interaction methodologies for enhanced safety and coexistence, ii) novel human-robot collaboration methodologies for increased system adaptability and intuitive usability; iii) novel multi-robot coordination methodologies for improved scalability. CANOPIES impact will contribute to filling the current gap in the development of fully autonomous robotic solutions for permanent crops by introducing a novel concept of farming robots, where we leverage an effective interaction with the human workers to mitigate the greater complexity of permanent crops as compared with field crops.
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H2020-ICT-2020-2
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
00154 Roma
Italia