Agridrone LAAS wiki¶

Installing simulation environment¶

Importing GeoTiff into Blender¶

Links to commercial companies¶

Vision sensors¶

• The MicaSense penta-spectral camera
• The AirInov company
• The Agribotics company
• The Sensilize company
• The Hi-Phen company (a spin-off of INRA and Arvalis)
• Sentera
• Hyperspectral cameras Resonon

Other Sensors¶

• Mapping soil moisture

Lidars¶

• The Yellowscan Lidar developed by L'avion Jaune (the page of Tristan Alloui who works in this company contains interesting references for aiborne Lidars data processing)

Misc companies¶

• Skeyelabs
• Pix4D now consider agriculture robotics. See for example this use case (note the tiles seem to be geo-referenced)
• DataMapper

Agriculture drones companies¶

• The AirInov company again (see the way they organize their business in 2015)
• PrecisionHawk

Agriculture rover companies¶

• Our friends Naïo
• Ecorobotix, a startup form EPFL
• The Lettuce bot from the Blue Rivert company

Links to projects¶

• H2O absorbtion measure with SWIR cameras

• Project ASETA in Denmark

• The FP7 project RHEA (mostly devoted to ground robots, but work on airborne sensing have been performed)

• A short presentation of the FUI Détection Automatique des MAladies de la Vigne by the company Novadem (hyperspectral imaging will be considered in a PhD at AgroSup Dijon

Links to labs¶

• Aggiear at the Utah State University (esp. the publications page)

Links to on-line publications¶

• Weed Mapping in Early-Season Maize Fields Using Object-Based Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images

• The proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and associated High-technologies and Equipment for agriculture:
  • 2012 edition
  • 2014 edition

Misc Links¶

• The blog from the american Modern Farmer magazine (various news re. commercial robotics in agriculture can be found there)

Links to project documents¶

• The project proposal AgriDrones_FUI17_Vf.pdf
• Slides presented by LAAS at the M0 meeting PRECIDRONE_LAAS_presentation_reunion_M0_150409.pdf
• Slides presented by LAAS at the M18 meeting PRECIDRONE_LAAS_presentation_reunion_M18_161018.pdf
• Slides presented by LAAS at the M24 meeting PRECIDRONE_LAAS_presentation_reunion_M24_170330.pdf