The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots

[EN] The current state of automation technology has led to a growing interest in the design and development of new use-case agricultural robots that can provide effective solutions to the challenges that agriculture is facing in industrialized countries, especially those derived from labor shortage...

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Autores: Rovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281, Saiz Rubio, Verónica|||0000-0003-4188-3666, CHATTERJEE, ISHANI
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:GNSS
Farm robots
Agricultural robotics
Navigation strategies
Autonomous navigation
INGENIERIA AGROFORESTAL
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spelling The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robotsRovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281Saiz Rubio, Verónica|||0000-0003-4188-3666CHATTERJEE, ISHANIGNSSFarm robotsAgricultural roboticsNavigation strategiesAutonomous navigationINGENIERIA AGROFORESTAL[EN] The current state of automation technology has led to a growing interest in the design and development of new use-case agricultural robots that can provide effective solutions to the challenges that agriculture is facing in industrialized countries, especially those derived from labor shortage and ever-increasing production costs. The advent of autonomous moderate-size machines in the field appears as a prospective way of promoting the sustainable production of food in Europe, Japan, and North America. However, there exist important obstacles to the broad expansion of autonomous robots in the field; reliability, safeguarding, system complexity, and cost-efficiency in particular rank high among the impediments to overcome before prototypes move into the production stage. Robot navigation is essential for the successful deployment of autonomous machines in conventional farms, as a minimum level of safety has to be granted at the same time that navigation engines cannot be too sophisticated for solutions to compete with current equipment. In such compromise, global navigation satellite systems play a key role due to its wide range of solutions, and an important number of limitations. In this research, a variety of experiments were conducted to determine the scope of GNSS solutions as a principal component of the navigation system of novel farm robots. Results showed that regardless of the quality of the receiver used, multipath and other uncontrollable errors eventually occur in the field, and therefore signal consistency must be continuously checked by the robot’s navigation engine. Different strategies based on the meticulous analysis of NMEA strings, the optimal combination of GGA and VTG messages, and the trajectory-based redundant estimation of robot planar states are proposed to enhance the integration of GNSS measurements in the navigation engine of agricultural robots. 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.ElsevierDepartamento de Ingeniería Rural y AgroalimentariaEscuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio NaturalGrupo de Mecanización y Tecnología AgrariaRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20152015-03-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/63825reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reserva de todos los derechoshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/638252026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
title The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
spellingShingle The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
Rovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281
GNSS
Farm robots
Agricultural robotics
Navigation strategies
Autonomous navigation
INGENIERIA AGROFORESTAL
title_short The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
title_full The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
title_fullStr The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
title_full_unstemmed The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
title_sort The role of GNSS in the navigation strategies of cost-effective agricultural robots
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281
Saiz Rubio, Verónica|||0000-0003-4188-3666
CHATTERJEE, ISHANI
author Rovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281
author_facet Rovira Más, Francisco|||0000-0002-2589-9281
Saiz Rubio, Verónica|||0000-0003-4188-3666
CHATTERJEE, ISHANI
author_role author
author2 Saiz Rubio, Verónica|||0000-0003-4188-3666
CHATTERJEE, ISHANI
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Ingeniería Rural y Agroalimentaria
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica y del Medio Natural
Grupo de Mecanización y Tecnología Agraria
Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv GNSS
Farm robots
Agricultural robotics
Navigation strategies
Autonomous navigation
INGENIERIA AGROFORESTAL
topic GNSS
Farm robots
Agricultural robotics
Navigation strategies
Autonomous navigation
INGENIERIA AGROFORESTAL
description [EN] The current state of automation technology has led to a growing interest in the design and development of new use-case agricultural robots that can provide effective solutions to the challenges that agriculture is facing in industrialized countries, especially those derived from labor shortage and ever-increasing production costs. The advent of autonomous moderate-size machines in the field appears as a prospective way of promoting the sustainable production of food in Europe, Japan, and North America. However, there exist important obstacles to the broad expansion of autonomous robots in the field; reliability, safeguarding, system complexity, and cost-efficiency in particular rank high among the impediments to overcome before prototypes move into the production stage. Robot navigation is essential for the successful deployment of autonomous machines in conventional farms, as a minimum level of safety has to be granted at the same time that navigation engines cannot be too sophisticated for solutions to compete with current equipment. In such compromise, global navigation satellite systems play a key role due to its wide range of solutions, and an important number of limitations. In this research, a variety of experiments were conducted to determine the scope of GNSS solutions as a principal component of the navigation system of novel farm robots. Results showed that regardless of the quality of the receiver used, multipath and other uncontrollable errors eventually occur in the field, and therefore signal consistency must be continuously checked by the robot’s navigation engine. Different strategies based on the meticulous analysis of NMEA strings, the optimal combination of GGA and VTG messages, and the trajectory-based redundant estimation of robot planar states are proposed to enhance the integration of GNSS measurements in the navigation engine of agricultural robots. 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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