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Flex-Ro: A Robotic High Throughput Field Phenotyping System, Joshua N. Murman
Flex-Ro: A Robotic High Throughput Field Phenotyping System, Joshua N. Murman
Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Research in agriculture is critical to developing techniques to meet the world’s demand for food, fuel, fiber, and feed. Optimization of crop production per unit of land requires scientists across disciplines to collaborate and investigate new areas of science and tools for data collection. The use of robotics has been adopted in several industries to supplement labor, and accurately perform repetitious tasks. However, the use of autonomous robots in commercial agricultural production is still limited. The Flex-Ro (Flexible structured Robotic platform) was developed for use in large area fields as a multipurpose tool to perform monotonous agricultural tasks.
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