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How do you build a distributed robot system in the garden? The test is usefulness
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This is what I have researched:
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The idea for the project came from work done by Nikolaus Correll, a postdoctoral assistant working in Professor Daniela Rus’ Distributed Robotics Lab. Correll, who came to CSAIL in 2007, saw the possible applications of swarm robotics to an agricultural environment. In the long view, the researchers hope to develop a fully autonomous greenhouse, complete with robots, pots and plants connected via computation, sensing and communication. Each robot is outfitted with a robotic arm and a watering pump, while the plants themselves are equipped with local soil sensing, networking, and computation. This affords them the ability to communicate: plants can request water or nutrients and keep track of their conditions, including fruit produced; robots are able to minister to their charges, locate and pick a specific tomato, and even pollinate the plants.
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This is useful in the long run according to Nikolaus Correll. He hopes to develop a fully autonomous greenhouse complete with robots, pots and plants connected via computation, sensing and communication. He is also optimistic about future applications of the project and others that are similar to it like tasks for automating services for adults who has difficulty or slow mobility in residential care facilities or tending plant in greenhouses or hydroponic farms. If this will be perfected it will be adaptable this can lead to an exciting future of collaborative humans, the natural world and the machines.
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The idea for the project came from work done by Nikolaus Correll, a postdoctoral assistant working in Professor Daniela Rus’ Distributed Robotics Lab. Correll, who came to CSAIL in 2007, saw the possible applications of swarm robotics to an agricultural environment. In the long view, the researchers hope to develop a fully autonomous greenhouse, complete with robots, pots and plants connected via computation, sensing and communication. Each robot is outfitted with a robotic arm and a watering pump, while the plants themselves are equipped with local soil sensing, networking, and computation. This affords them the ability to communicate: plants can request water or nutrients and keep track of their conditions, including fruit produced; robots are able to minister to their charges, locate and pick a specific tomato, and even pollinate the plants.
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This is useful in the long run according to Nikolaus Correll. He hopes to develop a fully autonomous greenhouse complete with robots, pots and plants connected via computation, sensing and communication. He is also optimistic about future applications of the project and others that are similar to it like tasks for automating services for adults who has difficulty or slow mobility in residential care facilities or tending plant in greenhouses or hydroponic farms. If this will be perfected it will be adaptable this can lead to an exciting future of collaborative humans, the natural world and the machines.
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