Automation of agronomic work on intensive farms using robotics IDI-20141220.

Automation of agronomic work on intensive farms using robotics IDI-20141220.

AGRONAUTA is an experimental development project whose challenge is to transform and revolutionise the production model for vine tomatoes, through a global and multidisciplinary approach, which will enable a cutting-edge and innovative technological solution to be developed: the harvesting and preparation of tomato bunches in situ in greenhouses using a mobile robotic system, supported by an intelligent production environment.

The sum of the efforts of the consortium’s multidisciplinary team are aimed at developing a new transgressive production system, based on a mobile robot for use in the intensive cultivation of vine tomatoes, capable of carrying out intelligent analysis and harvesting tasks, supported by a cutting-edge automation and control environment that simplifies the robot’s production work and accessibility, providing efficiency, cost reduction, development potential, flexibility and reliability of the system.

In this sense, AGRONAUTA’s global goal is the development of a revolutionary prototype production system for intensive production under plastic, which will mark a cutting-edge and innovative technological solution at international level, with the commitment to establish a clear advance and improvement, developing unique technologies and techniques for vegetable production, such as climate control, irrigation, automation, intelligence, artificial vision and robotisation.

With the aim of closing the production cycle, the system is completed with the development of new packaging systems to be installed on the farm itself and a global management of production through management software and demand forecasting.