Practice Abstract - Research and innovation

CROPS: "Intelligent sensing and manipulation for sustainable production and harvesting of high value crops, clever robots for crops"

CROPS developed scientific know-how for a highly configurable, modular and clever carrier platform that includes modular parallel manipulators and “intelligent tools” (sensors, algorithms, sprayers, grippers) that can be easily installed onto the carrier and are capable of adapting to new tasks and conditions. Several technological demonstrators were developed for high value crops like greenhouse vegetables, fruits in orchards, and grapes for premium wines. The CROPS robotic platform is capable of site-specific spraying (targets spray only towards foliage and selective targets) and selective harvesting of fruit (detects the fruit, determines its ripeness, moves towards the fruit, grasps it and softly detaches it). CROPS developed techniques for reliable detection and classification of obstacles and other objects to enable successful autonomous navigation and operation in plantations and forests. The agricultural and forestry applications share many research areas, primarily regarding sensing and learning capabilities. The project developed a Sweet-pepper harvesting robot (http://www.crops-robots.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id…), an apple harvesting robot (http://www.crops-robots.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id…), a close range precision spraying robot and a canopy optimized spraying robot (http://www.crops-robots.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id…).

See also: https://smart-akis.com/SFCPPortal/#/app-h/technologies?techid=81

Source Project
Smart-AKIS: European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research
in Smart Farming Technology
Ongoing | 2016-2018
Main funding source
Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
Geographical location
Greece
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