Simulation software and virtual environments for acceleration of agricultural robotics:Features highlights and performance comparison
作者机构：Department of Agriculture TechnologyFaculty of AgricultureUniversiti Putra Malaysia43400SerdangSelangorMalaysia Dept.of ICT and Natural SciencesFaculty of Information Technology and Electrical EngineeringNorwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU)Larsgårdsveien 2NO-6009ÅlesundNorway Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of BristolBristolUnited Kingdom Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and BioeconomyMax-Eyth-Allee 10014469 Potsdam-BornimGermany New Zealand Centre for Precision Agriculture(NZCPA)School of Agriculture and EnvironmentMassey UniversityPrivate Bag 11222Palmerston North 4442New Zealand Department of Agricultural and Biological EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign1304 West Pennsylvania Avenue UrbanaIL 61801USA
出 版 物：《International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering》 (国际农业与生物工程学报（英文）)
年 卷 期：2018年第11卷第4期
页 面：15-31页
核心收录：
学科分类：08[工学] 081101[工学-控制理论与控制工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 081102[工学-检测技术与自动化装置]
基 金：University of Sydney Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CAAS
主 题：agricultural robotics precision agriculture virtual orchards digital agriculture simulation software multi-robots
摘 要：Research efforts for development of agricultural robots that can effectively perform tedious field tasks have grown significantly in the past *** robots are complex systems that require interdisciplinary collaborations between different research groups for effective task delivery in unstructured crops and plants *** the exception of milking robots,the extensive research works that have been carried out in the past two decades for adaptation of robotics in agriculture have not yielded a commercial product to *** accelerate this pace,simulation approach and evaluation methods in virtual environments can provide an affordable and reliable framework for experimenting with different sensing and acting mechanisms in order to verify the performance functionality of the robot in dynamic *** paper reviews several professional simulators and custom-built virtual environments that have been used for agricultural robotic *** key features and performance efficiency of three selected simulators were also compared.A simulation case study was demonstrated to highlight some of the powerful functionalities of the Virtual Robot Experimentation *** of the objects and scenes were presented as the proof-of-concept for using a completely simulated robotic platform and sensing systems in a virtual citrus *** was shown that the simulated workspace can provide a configurable and modular prototype robotic system that is capable of adapting to several field conditions and tasks through easy testing and debugging of control algorithms with zero damage risk to the real robot and to the actual *** review suggests that an open-source software platform for agricultural robotics will significantly accelerate effective collaborations between different research groups for sharing existing workspaces,algorithms,and reusing the materials.
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