"Autonomous agriculture is coming everywhere, and it's happening much faster than autonomous cars.
Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky
"Autonomous agriculture is coming everywhere, and it's happening much faster than autonomous cars. There are fewer restrictions, far less likelihood of interactions with other farm equipment or people, and a measurable payback for large-scale farmers."
"John Deere's move into electronics dates back to the late 1990s, when the company rolled out a GPS-enabled parallel tracking feature for it's vehicles." "In the mid 2000s, the company introduced a system that allowed a vehicle to turn around by itself at the end of a row, and by 2010, the company had fully self-driving vehicles."
"That still required an operator to be in the vehicle. One of the reasons for that is with agricultural vehicles, it's not just about driving like it is an automobile. It's also about getting the vehicle tuned correctly to do a job, and that's a whole different component of autonomy that we have yet to figure out. We have a parallel journey in trying to deliver autonomy to that part of the system. Basically, how do we make all parts of the system autonomous?'"
"In order to be able to make it really fast through a field of corn that's already five feet tall, you have to make sure you stay within those rows. We install that camera and the camera basically uses machine vision to make sure that the sprayers stay within the rows. It's essentially looking for the middle of the row and does those calculations real-time."
https://semiengineering.com/toward-autonomous-farming/
"Autonomous agriculture is coming everywhere, and it's happening much faster than autonomous cars. There are fewer restrictions, far less likelihood of interactions with other farm equipment or people, and a measurable payback for large-scale farmers."
"John Deere's move into electronics dates back to the late 1990s, when the company rolled out a GPS-enabled parallel tracking feature for it's vehicles." "In the mid 2000s, the company introduced a system that allowed a vehicle to turn around by itself at the end of a row, and by 2010, the company had fully self-driving vehicles."
"That still required an operator to be in the vehicle. One of the reasons for that is with agricultural vehicles, it's not just about driving like it is an automobile. It's also about getting the vehicle tuned correctly to do a job, and that's a whole different component of autonomy that we have yet to figure out. We have a parallel journey in trying to deliver autonomy to that part of the system. Basically, how do we make all parts of the system autonomous?'"
"In order to be able to make it really fast through a field of corn that's already five feet tall, you have to make sure you stay within those rows. We install that camera and the camera basically uses machine vision to make sure that the sprayers stay within the rows. It's essentially looking for the middle of the row and does those calculations real-time."
https://semiengineering.com/toward-autonomous-farming/
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