A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

Jarkko Kotaniemi; Niko Känsäkoski; Eric Halbach; Tapio Heikkilä

doi:10.1109/MESA61532.2024.10704901

A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

Jarkko Kotaniemi^*, Niko Känsäkoski, Eric Halbach, Tapio Heikkilä

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Automatic weeding technologies have attained a lot of attention lately, because of the harms and challenges weeds cause for livestock farming, in addition to that weeds reduce yields. We are targeting automatic and mechanical Rumex weeding in open pasture fields using light weight mobile field robot technologies. Since the Rumex plants can cause oxalate poisoning in livestock, it is important to remove the weeds from the pastures. We describe a mobile weeding robot with GNSS navigation, 3D computer vision for weed detection, and a robot arm with a mechanical weeding tool. Our main contribution is showing the feasibility of light weight robot, sensor, and tool technologies in mechanical removal of weed seedlings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3315-1623-9
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3315-1624-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MESA61532.2024.10704901
Publication status	Published - 2024
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	20th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA 2024 - Genova, Italy Duration: 2 Sept 2024 → 4 Sept 2024

Publication series

Series	IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA
Volume	20
ISSN	2639-7110

Conference

Conference	20th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA 2024
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genova
Period	2/09/24 → 4/09/24

Keywords

agricultural robot
computer vision
mechanical weeding

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Kotaniemi, Jarkko ; Känsäkoski, Niko ; Halbach, Eric et al. / A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal. MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2024. (IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA, Vol. 20).

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Kotaniemi, J, Känsäkoski, N, Halbach, E & Heikkilä, T 2024, A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal. in MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA, vol. 20, 20th IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA 2024, Genova, Italy, 2/09/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/MESA61532.2024.10704901

A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal. / Kotaniemi, Jarkko; Känsäkoski, Niko; Halbach, Eric et al.
MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2024. (IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA, Vol. 20).

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Kotaniemi J, Känsäkoski N, Halbach E , Heikkilä T. A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal. In MESA 2024 - 20th International Conference on Mechatronic, Embedded Systems and Applications, Proceedings. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. 2024. (IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechtronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, MESA, Vol. 20). doi: 10.1109/MESA61532.2024.10704901

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