We propose to develop a solution, called CLARA, for intelligent ”fleet management” of agricultural robots, with apropriate interfaces to the robots in operation and interfaces to centralized, cloud-based data logging facilities, helping to achieve this.
The main product in the solution is a Clever Agricultural Robot App for tablet and/or smartphone use for management of agricultural robots. Some of the app functions and features are:
• Present the relevant robot operational data in a user-friendly way, supporting use-cases where the operator have access to one or several robots, with instant access to both live data as well as historical logged data
• Enable the sharing of live and historical data with other applications through the FIWARE Object Storage GE
• Utilize e.g. route planning and/or GIS data made by other applications for use on the connected managed robots
• Overall robot fleet management and supervision with integrated alarms and alerts
• Possibility to retrieve, gather and store, and compare operational information from agricultural robots in the field
• Real-time upload of data during live operation or as off-line batch uploads after completed operations – to be stored in FIWARE Object Storage GE
• Enable information sharing with other applications through FIWARE
The market for the solution and the app product is initially targeted at robots for semi-autonomous and later on autonomous, grassland automation and automated weed control. Also turf management related to maintenance of turf grass for sports or leisure use is in focus.
The project described in this application will be developed by Conpleks Innovation ApS in Struer Denmark, with initially two selected end-user field trial partners.
Conpleks is very active in research and development of agricultural robots. Currently this area contributes with approx. 80% of the company turnover.