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Federal Minister reviews robotics project of the Department of Agricultural Engineering
The exhibited robot prototype demonstrates the possibility of combating slug damage in arable farming using an autonomously driving vehicle with online slug detection through digital image analysis ('machine vision'). The three-year research project will continue to be funded until 2019 as part of the innovation program of the German Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) and includes further innovative research questions. For example, slugs found are not only combated but also mapped, so that the robot is able to recognize hotspots in the field and subsequently target them. In combination with continuous route optimization, this ensures the effectiveness of the control and achieves a high impact.