Project

Smart Control for Precision Mechanical Weed Management on a Mobile Robot Platform

Code
01D09021
Duration
01 October 2021 → 31 October 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Adaptive agents and intelligent robotics
    • Machine learning and decision making
Keywords
Agricultural robotics Residual Reinforcement Learning Automated Weed Management
 
Project description

Mechanical weed management is a major bottleneck for sustainable yet efficient food production. Intelligent and versatile intra-row weeding solutions remain unavailable due to the high complexity of agricultural environments. This project aims to create a learning methodology that combines model-based learning of dynamics with model-free residual reinforcement learning in a simulated environment to learn adaptive control policies for weed management.