Virtual Reality based Mobile Robot Navigation in Greenhouse Environment

The difficulties of transporting heavy mobile robots limit robotic experiments in agriculture. Virtual reality however, offers an alternative to conduct experiments in agriculture. This paper presents an application of virtual reality in a robot navigational experiment using SolidWorks and simulated...

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Published inAdvances in animal biosciences Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 854 - 859
Main Authors Saiful Azimi, M., Shukri, Z. A., Zaharuddin, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2017
Subjects
Agri-engineering
Agriculture
Automation
Computer applications
Computing time
Design
Engineering
Experiments
Farm buildings
Greenhouses
Information technology
Inspection
International conferences
Kinematics
Linux
Navigation
Planning
Robots
Simulation
Software
Virtual environments
Virtual reality
greenhouse
mobile robot
navigation
virtual reality
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Summary:The difficulties of transporting heavy mobile robots limit robotic experiments in agriculture. Virtual reality however, offers an alternative to conduct experiments in agriculture. This paper presents an application of virtual reality in a robot navigational experiment using SolidWorks and simulated into MATLAB. Trajectories were initiated using Probabilistic Roadmap and compared based on travel time, distance and tracking error, and the efficiency was calculated. The simulation results showed that the proposed method was able to conduct the navigational experiment inside the virtual environment. U-turn trajectory was chosen as the best trajectory for crop inspection with 82.7% efficiency.
ISSN:2040-4700
2040-4719
DOI:10.1017/S2040470017001078