FarmBot Simulator: Towards a Virtual Environment for Scaled Precision Agriculture

V.A. Murcia; J.F. Palacios; G. Barbieri

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-80906-5_16

FarmBot Simulator: Towards a Virtual Environment for Scaled Precision Agriculture

V.A. Murcia, J.F. Palacios, G. Barbieri

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Abstract

Precision agriculture (PA) is considered the future of agriculture since it allows optimizing returns on inputs while preserving resources. To investigate PA strategies, test benches can be applied to reproduce the use of the technology in scaled farms before implementation. The FarmBot CNC robot farming machine has the premises to become a test bench for PA, but its control software must be adapted for implementing farming strategies based on the feedback of sensors. In line with the Virtual Commissioning technology, a FarmBot Simulator is proposed in this paper to support the development of a control software able to implement different PA strategies, before its deployment into the physical test bench. A case study is developed to demonstrate that the proposed FarmBot Simulator allows the verification of different PA strategies through the implementation of a Software-in-the-Loop simulation. Due to the importance of food security in the ‘worldwide landscape’, we hope that the FarmBot approach may become a future strategy for the investigation in PA due to its low-cost implementation and its open source software.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of SOHOMA LATIN AMERICA 2021
Pages	234-246
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80906-5_16
Publication status	Published - 29 Jul 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	1st Latin-American Workshop on Service-Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future, SOHOMA Latin America 2020 - Bogota, Colombia Duration: 27 Jan 2021 → 28 Jan 2021 Conference number: 1

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Name	Studies in Computational Intelligence

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Conference	1st Latin-American Workshop on Service-Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future, SOHOMA Latin America 2020
Abbreviated title	SOHOMA Latin America 2020
Country/Territory	Colombia
City	Bogota
Period	27/01/21 → 28/01/21

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Murcia, V. A., Palacios, J. F., & Barbieri, G. (2021). FarmBot Simulator: Towards a Virtual Environment for Scaled Precision Agriculture. In Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future: Proceedings of SOHOMA LATIN AMERICA 2021 (pp. 234-246). (Studies in Computational Intelligence). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80906-5_16

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Murcia, VA, Palacios, JF & Barbieri, G 2021, FarmBot Simulator: Towards a Virtual Environment for Scaled Precision Agriculture. in Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future: Proceedings of SOHOMA LATIN AMERICA 2021. Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp. 234-246, 1st Latin-American Workshop on Service-Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future, SOHOMA Latin America 2020, Bogota, Colombia, 27/01/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80906-5_16

FarmBot Simulator: Towards a Virtual Environment for Scaled Precision Agriculture. / Murcia, V.A.; Palacios, J.F.; Barbieri, G.
Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future: Proceedings of SOHOMA LATIN AMERICA 2021. 2021. p. 234-246 (Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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