Configuring a Fleet of Ground Robots for Agricultural Tasks

Lately, many computer-based sensors and actuators have been incorporated in agricultural equipment with the main goal of configuring agricultural robots capable of achieving different tasks autonomously. However, the incorporation of different electronic systems in a robot impairs its reliability and increases its cost. Thus, hardware minimization and ease of software integration is mandatory to obtain feasible robotic systems. This paper strives to find a hardware architecture for both individual robots and robots working in fleets to improve reliability, decrease development costs and allow the integration of software from different developers.