November ROS-A Europe Community Meeting

ROS-Agriculture
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ROS-Agriculture Europe Meeting Minutes 2020-11-26

Attendees

Name Organization
Ting-Chia Chiang TUDelft
Ilias Amri Sorbonne Université
El Houssein Chouaib HARIK NIBIO
Nikos Mylonas AUA
Ioannis Malounas -
Ragesh Ramachandran Fraunhofer IPA
Avgoustakis Giannis -
Tim Clephas -

Topics

  1. A presentation given by @Nikos_Mylonas - “Eden Library: an initiative to address the challenges of agrifood data scarcity and boost AI vision tasks” (slides (934.3 KB))
  2. Extending the simulation of lawn tractor demo for a hackathon
    • The goal is to set up a challenge like DARPA subterranean challenge
      • Have a virtual environment for navigating in row-crop fields - possibly base our work on a project from University of Bonn
    • Topics can be covered:

      • Data collection and training pipeline:

        • Train data for plant recognition from synthetic data (taken from photogammetry). Details can be found in this post

      • Localization:

        • There is still a big challenge in outdoor localization, especially in GPS-denied environments
        • Ioannis is working on a visual slam project using RTAB-Map
        • Configure a receiver to connect to a network of RTK bases to increase localization precision- Centipede project

Recording

The video of this meeting may be found here

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