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Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Plant Scanner Video - D5.3
<p><strong>The following video shows the functionalities and usage of the Plant Scanner developed within the Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) project funded by EU Grant 773875</strong></p> <p><em>Videos are available in:</em></p> <ul> <li><em>hi-res (4K Apple ProRes)</em></li> <li><em>mid-red (4K H264)</em></li> <li><em>low-res (1080p H264)</em></li> </ul> <p><em>You can also watch it on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcDBj2Y2uM">Youtube</a></em></p> <p><strong>Video script:</strong></p> <p>The ROMI Plant Scanner is a plant phenotyping robot that generates high quality and high precision imaging data. It allows us to analyze the shoot architecture of a medium sized plant in indoor conditions in three dimensions.</p> <p>The image acquisition is non-destructive, allowing life-time analysis of the same plant, or the option to reuse a plant imaged in the Plant Scanner in multiple analyses. The robot creates a phenotype of a single plant in a few minutes and can make up to a hundred in a day. Also, automated analysis pipelines have been optimized to take raw data as input and directly deliver the final analysis in a format for biologist end-users.</p> <p>This phenotyping is dedicated to Research & Development teams in plant science. Precision phenotyping is becoming invaluable to current questions of modern biology, seeking a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms governing plant growth and development.</p> <p>In relation to their sessile lifestyle, plant shoot systems generally explore the above-ground space in three dimensions. To make some shoot traits accessible to routine or exploratory phenotyping Automation is crucial. Moving the camera rather than the plant ensures that the plant can remain still - providing more precision.</p> <p>The Romi Plant Scanner could be used to automate the phenotyping of any trait of the shoot system of a single plant.</p> <p>The plant Scanner is a fixed phenotyping station. Its reasonable size can easily fit into 2 to 3 meters squared, ideally near to a facility where plants are individually cultured in moveable pots.</p> <p>The ROMI has developed a proof-of-concept scenario using a challenging task: measuring the in-flor-escence phyllo-taxis of the model plant Arabodopsis thaliana.<br> The hardware design shares many components from the Romi Rover and it shares the same camera module with the Romi Cable Bot, ensuring reusability and maintainability across the full ROMI stack.</p> <p>The rover is available as an Open Source project. All of the source code and plans are freely available. This allows us to improve the design over time using input from farmers and engineers. That is also why we made the design modular using components that can be found “off-the-shelf” or that can be produced using 3D printers and laser cutters. People with development skills can also contribute. Our software is available online on Github. This makes the Romi Scanner a good platform to experiment with innovative tools for farming research.</p>
Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Farmers Dashboard Video - D3.4
<p><strong>The following video shows the functionalities and usage of the Farmer’s Dashboard developed within the Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) project funded by EU Grant 773875</strong></p> <p><em>You can also watch it on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT55o32SE30a8pTu-chatTA/videos">Youtube</a></em></p> <p><strong>Video content:</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>Farmers Dashboard Summary.mp4</em></li> <li><em>Tell me more - a deeper dive into the Cablebot.mp4</em></li> <li><em>Tell me more - a deeper dive into the Farmers Dashboard.mp4</em></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Videos summary:</strong></p> <p><br> The Farmer’s Dashboard is a farming tool that provides daily automated insights about your crops. It helps with mapping of crop bed, the location and identification of individual plants, and the extraction of their growth curves from the collected data. </p> <p>The dashboard benefits polycrop farmers and researchers. It opens-up technology and practices common to industrial-scale agriculture, making them accessible and useful to ecological and sustainable farmers.</p> <p>It relies on an automated system for data acquisition, a set of tools for image analytics, and finally, an online platform for spatial management and data visualization. The data can be provided by different types of devices: a cablebot, a drone or a rover according to the configuration of each farm. </p> <p>The Cable Bot can be fixed above a crop bed using a tensioned cable, which is especially easy using a polytunnel. We can use the manual remote to correctly position the camera, to capture all of the crops. Once set up, the Cable Bot will move multiple times a day across the crop bed, taking high definition images and sending them to a ROMI server. The images are assembled into a unique portrait of your crop bed. After plants are detected, a catalogue of individual plants is created. By comparing them with historical data, we can obtain plant growth curves. All of the information is then combined into a weed map which is made available on the Farmers Dashboard website.</p> <p>Because of the legal restrictions on the use of drones and because of the rapid evolution of the drone market, the ROMI project has decided to direct its effort to a hardware solution that complements the existing tools: the Cablebot. Multiple iterations were needed to achieve a powerful yet robust and low-cost solution. The current system is a fully automated imaging device able to collect data on a high variety of crops. </p> <p>The first iteration of the software focuses on the mapping of crop rows, the location and identification of individual plants, and the extraction of their growth curves from the collected data. </p> <p>The rover is available as an Open Source project. All of the source code and plans are freely available. That allows us to improve the design over time using input from farmers and engineers. That is also why we made the design modular using components that can be found “off-the-shelf” or that can be produced using 3D printers and laser cutters. People with development skills can also contribute. Our software is available online on Github. That makes the Romi Farmers Dashboard an excellent platform to experiment with innovative tools for farming.</p>
Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Rover Video - D2.2
<p><strong>The following video shows the functionalities and usage of the Farmers Rover developed within the Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) project funded by EU Grant 773875</strong></p> <p><em>Videos are available in:</em></p> <ul> <li><em>hi-res (4K Apple ProRes)</em></li> <li><em>mid-red (4K H264)</em></li> <li><em>low-res (1080p H264)</em></li> </ul> <p><em>You can also watch it on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBq29rmo5E">Youtube</a></em></p> <p><strong>Video script:</strong></p> <p>The ROMI Rover is a farming tool that assists vegetable farmers in maintaining vegetable beds free of weeds. It does this by regularly hoeing the surface of the soil and thus preventing small weeds from taking root. It can do this task mostly autonomously and requires only minor changes to the organization of the farm. It is designed for vegetable beds between 70 cm and 120 cm wide and for crops up to 50 cm high. It currently handles two types of crops, lettuce and carrots. The lettuce can be planted out in any layout, most likely in a quincunx pattern.</p> <p>This robot is designed for smaller market farms of less than 5 ha but the size of the farm and the amount of crop you want to cover will determine the number of rovers you will use, A weekly passage of the robot should be sufficient to keep the population of weeds under control.</p> <p>The Romi Rover can help to control the pressure of weeds on crops. Too many weeds take resources such as water and sunlight away from the main crop and crop productivity will drop as a result. Because organic farming cannot use chemical herbicides, weed control is an important activity. In many cases, weeding is done manually which requires not only a lot of time but also is a demanding physical task. That’s where the Romi Rover steps in. It can alleviate this task from farmers so that they can concentrate on more rewarding activities.</p> <p>The Romi Rover is positioned over a vegetable bed, it cleans the top-soil with a rotating precision hoe. The rover must be taken to the field using the remote control or by simply pushing it. The use of the rover requires relatively flat beds. To assist the rover in navigating the length of a crop bed, it is necessary to install guide rails such as tubes or wooden boards along the bed.</p> <p>Once the rover is positioned along the rails at the beginning of a bed, it hoes the surface of the soil whilst moving itself the entire length of the bed.</p> <p>Two weeding methods are available. First, a precision weeding method in which the top-soil is turned over in between the plants. Second, a classical weeding method in which standard weeding tools are dragged behind the rover between the rows of vegetables.</p> <p>For the precision weeding method, the rover uses a camera to detect the plants that are underneath the rover. It then moves the precision weeding tool over the surface as it closely passes the detected vegetables.<br> Although the rover is autonomous for weeding a single bed, it is important to stay in proximity to the rover. A U-turn must also be manually performed at the end of the bed and the rover repositioned in line with the rails of the next bed.</p> <p>Multiple versions of the Rover have been assembled and tested in different locations to validate and showcase the adaptability of the design for different fabrication processes and field applications.</p> <p>The rover is available as an Open Source project. All of the source code and plans are freely available. This allows us to improve the design over time using input from farmers and engineers. That is also why we made the design modular using components that can be found “off-the-shelf” or that can be produced using 3D printers and laser cutters. People with development skills can also contribute. Our software is available online on Github. This makes the Romi Rover a good platform to experiment with innovative tools for farming.</p>
Dataset of cropping cycles possibilities considered by the MERLIN model for urban microfarms in the London context
<p>This dataset is related to the article “<strong>Reconciling economic viability and socio-ecological aspirations is possible but challenging for London urban microfarms”</strong> submitted to the journal <strong>Agronomy for Sustainable Development.</strong></p> <p>The table presents the 274 cropping possibilities for the 36 crops considered by the MERLIN model for crop planning in London microfarms. For each crop and location (outdoors or in tunnel), the different possibilities of cropping cycles are described with month of planting the crop, the month of first harvest and the month of last harvest (some vegetables can be harvested various times during their production cycle).</p>
Microfarms and computational agriculture: a future of farming?
<p><strong>The following video introduces the Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) project and describes the concept of Micro Farms and Computational Agriculture. Funded by EU Grant 773875.</strong></p> <p><em>Videos are available in:</em></p> <ul> <li>Hi-res (1080p Apple ProRes)</li> <li>Mid-res (1080p H265)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Video script:</strong></p> <p>(MINCHIN) Micro-Farms are farms which are smaller than five hectares and that is a European commission designation of that type of farm which are very common and proliferate all across Europe and are growing in number.<br> <br> (HANAPPE) Micro-farms the way I see it now would be a small farm 1000 square meters maybe a bit more using poly-cropping to really optimise the space and situated next to the city, with the direct link to the city.<br> <br> (MINCHIN) But the Farms themselves are very interesting because being a small scale they cannot compete with a conventional agriculture and for that reason often turn to more diverse crops, polyculture systems and diversity as a solution for their markets. difference information<br> <br> (SERRA CANTí) An organic farm is a space where the coal is to cultivate the entire ecosystem, and to do so we focus on different crops that help and complement between them, and are not monocultures. Rotating crop beds, adding organic matter, structuring the soil and taking care of the life in the soil such as microorganisms, bacteria, fungi. All of this ultimately ensure that the plant is healthy and does not have so many pests and diseases. A conventional field can have many hectares with the same crop, they are monocultures. That means that if one disease comes, or one insect it can reproduce exponentially. But instead if you have different crops, this stops because the food that it has is limited.<br> <br> (MINCHIN) When we work with Organic agriculture we're really looking to a tradition of companion planting and polyculture which is much more complex than the conventional agriculture of today. So what we're seeing here is planting of tomatoes together with lettuce and together with a basil and the Basils give a natural defence against predators for the tomatoes but we can also use an intercrop lettuces in the gaps. But dealing with that polyculture becomes rather complex.<br> <br> (HANAPPE) And managing its complexity is difficult of course that's one of the reasons why we went to monoculture in the first place. But now with the digital tools that we have we can reintroduce some of this complexity and handle AI and Robotics to assist us in managing this complexity.<br> <br> (MINCHIN) Farmers working on a small scale with a large diversity of crop finds that the work is often very very labor intensive.<br> <br> (HANAPPE) For two months I've experienced myself at the Chatelain farm and in it it's quite taxing on the knees and the back. Ninety Five percent of the disorders in agriculture are muscular skeletal problems.<br> <br> (MINCHIN) The statistics show that after four years of starting a new Farm, many of these young Farmers actually end up with back problems and really struggle to manage the intensity of that biodiversity, of that diversity of crop. So for ROMI our challenge really is to try and support those young Farmers to deal with the complexity and to manage some of the menial tasks that they face day to day.<br> <br> (BAORI) If we can help a small organic micro-farm stay in business, because we're helping to replace a little bit of the manual labor and the the kind of hardship of that keep their costs down it means that we're encouraging smaller Farms to not use chemicals they can use a Rover for weeding, and it's better for for the land it's better for the farmers it's better for us all really in the end so it's a very worthwhile project.<br> <br> (CAMPRODON) Agricultural itself is technology right it's not lets say we don't wake up one day and suddenly the world looked like it is, no, we built it for thousands of years. And so for me I don't know if there's such a big disconnection or we should think as a big disconnection between traditional farming and this new farming. Things change but I like to see it more as a natural evolution of the way that humans use technology. Basically they develop this cultural practice, that helps them to modify their environment and they apply that to farming.<br> <br> (HANAPPE) What can we do with new technology to help these farms? And then it was at some point you know just sort of well, let's do something very provocative, let's do robotics for these farms. Which was a bit of a clash because many of these farmers actually started farming because they sort of wanted to go back to to Nature. And then saying to them look well we can introduce robotics for you, is a bit of a sort of edgy topic.<br> <br> (MINCHIN) And that really means that we might be able to take the best of the past and combine it with the tools of the future to forge a ‘computational agriculture’ which feeds the land, feeds the ecology and also feeds ourselves. The ROMI tools are really set up to be able to help farmers with the support of biologists and with the support of computation, but it's not there yet. That's why we have open sourced these tools to allow a future development towards those objectives.</p>
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