Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates ... more Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates over £108bn p.a., with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry and exports £20bn of UK manufactured goods. However, the global food chain is under pressure from population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration, population drift from rural to urban regions and the demographics of an aging global population. These challenges are recognised in the UK Industrial Strategy white paper and backed by significant investment via a wave 2 Industrial Challenge Fund Investment (“Transforming Food Production: from Farm to Fork”). RAS and associated digital technologies are now seen as enablers of this critical food chain transformation. To meet these challenges, here we review the state of the art of the application of RAS in Agri-Food production and explore research and innovation needs to ensure novel advanced robotic and autonomous reach their full potential and d...
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2000
Mobile robots require the ability to build their ownmaps to operate in unknown environments. A fu... more Mobile robots require the ability to build their ownmaps to operate in unknown environments. A fundamentalproblem is that odometry-based dead reckoningcannot be used to assign accurate global position informationto a map because of drift errors caused by wheelslippage. This paper introduces a fast, on-line methodof learning globally consistent maps, using only localmetric information. The approach diers from previouswork in that
Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates ... more Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates over £108bn p.a., with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry and exports £20bn of UK manufactured goods. However, the global food chain is under pressure from population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration, population drift from rural to urban regions and the demographics of an aging global population. These challenges are recognised in the UK Industrial Strategy white paper and backed by significant investment via a wave 2 Industrial Challenge Fund Investment (“Transforming Food Production: from Farm to Fork”). RAS and associated digital technologies are now seen as enablers of this critical food chain transformation. To meet these challenges, here we review the state of the art of the application of RAS in Agri-Food production and explore research and innovation needs to ensure novel advanced robotic and autonomous reach their full potential and d...
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2000
Mobile robots require the ability to build their ownmaps to operate in unknown environments. A fu... more Mobile robots require the ability to build their ownmaps to operate in unknown environments. A fundamentalproblem is that odometry-based dead reckoningcannot be used to assign accurate global position informationto a map because of drift errors caused by wheelslippage. This paper introduces a fast, on-line methodof learning globally consistent maps, using only localmetric information. The approach diers from previouswork in that
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