Watching Grass Grow: Long-term Visual Navigation and Mission Planning for Autonomous Biodiversity Monitoring

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العنوان: Watching Grass Grow: Long-term Visual Navigation and Mission Planning for Autonomous Biodiversity Monitoring
المؤلفون: Gadd, Matthew, De Martini, Daniele, Pitt, Luke, Tubby, Wayne, Towlson, Matthew, Prahacs, Chris, Bartlett, Oliver, Jackson, John, Qi, Man, Newman, Paul, Hector, Andrew, Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Hawes, Nick
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics
الوصف: We describe a challenging robotics deployment in a complex ecosystem to monitor a rich plant community. The study site is dominated by dynamic grassland vegetation and is thus visually ambiguous and liable to drastic appearance change over the course of a day and especially through the growing season. This dynamism and complexity in appearance seriously impact the stability of the robotics platform, as localisation is a foundational part of that control loop, and so routes must be carefully taught and retaught until autonomy is robust and repeatable. Our system is demonstrated over a 6-week period monitoring the response of grass species to experimental climate change manipulations. We also discuss the applicability of our pipeline to monitor biodiversity in other complex natural settings.
Comment: to be presented at the Workshop on Field Robotics - ICRA 2024
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10446Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2404.10446
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv