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Project ideas

- to Bachelor and Master Student’s under the wings of the Hortibot project

The Hortibot project encourages students to do projects in parallel with our development of the Hortibot Robot.

Naturally a huge number of good ideas are coming up trying to fulfill the project aims and deliverables. There are not sufficient resources to pursue all ideas. Hence student projects seem a good idea for both parties. The student, meaning you, gets to work with relevant issues together with highly motivated project supervisors. In return the supervisor gets a chance to test some of his/her ideas which was not else possible.

The headlines to some of the project ideas related to the Hortibot development project are:

  • Develop a Hortibot add-on enabling automatic grass mowing based on RTK GPS navigation

  • Develop a Hortibot add-on enabling semi-automatic grass mowing based on RTK GPS navigation

  • Develop a Hortibot add-on enabling semi-automatic grass mowing based on the laser range system and the ECO-DAN 3D vision system

  • Adapt the Hortibot kit turning the coming Spider ILD02 into an autonomous high capacity automatic slope mower based on RTK GPS navigation

  • Improve the navigation logic enabling Hortibot passing over several horticultural parcels autonomously by combining all onboard sensor  systems (3D vision, laser range finder safety system, and GPS positioning systems of variable quality

  • Improve the Hortibot « Operator communication and interaction by use of easily understandable pictograms, symbol semantic, menu structure, etc.

  • Design a low-cost human machine interface enabling in-field Hortibot operator communication

  • Design a web interface for mobile phones enabling surveying the Hortibot status and changing system settings

  • Design a web interface illustrating the Hortibot movement history based on its internet based logfiles

  • Redesign the current Hortibot based on a survey concerning end-user requirements to the future tool carrier for weeding

  • Feasibility study, including SWOT analyses, on future Hortibot weeding tools

  • Develop a dynamic terrain estimator that estimates terrain heights and inclinations from 3D input from RTK GPS.

  • Squeeze the current Hortibot Control Computer into a Credit-Card Linux (e.g. the micro-9 Family)

Tools for the Hortibot

  • Design and construct a light weight inter row cultivator for the Hortibot

  • Design and construct a light weight intra row cultivator for the Hortibot

  • Design and construct a cell-sprayer for the Hortibot

  • Design and construct a light weight intra row burner for the Hortibot

Spin-off project ideas

  • Design an autonomous FeederAnt for automatic feeding of outdoor pigs

If you find any of these project ideas interesting feel free to contact us for further details.

Best regards,

Project Coordinator Rasmus Nyholm Jørgensen
Phone: +45 2625 4157
Skype: rnj300769

Scientist Michael Nørremark
Phone: +45 8999 3026
Michael.norremark@agrsci.dk
 

Revision Nov 2007 by Michael Nørremark