General information
| Team name: | Tanktastic |
| Institution: | University Hohenheim |
| Department: | Agriculture |
| Contact: | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Team details
| Mentors: | David Reiser |
| Members: | Robert Hübner |
Robot – basic information
| Web page: |
http://mpt-internal.uni-hohenheim.de/doku.php?id=robots:agsmr:welcome |
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Dimensions: (W ×L ×H) |
520 x 600 x 400 mm | ||
| Weight: | 40 kg | ||
| Num. of wheels: | 4 | Turning radius: | 0 |
| Rain resistance: | Light rain | ||
Robot – mechanical details
| Drive concept: | One motor for every wheel |
| Steering: | Differential steering |
| Special characteristics: | Fixed chassis |
Robot – electrical details
| Powered by: | 4 x 12V 12 Ah lead storage battery | |||
| Motors: | 4 x Buehler Gear Motor 70 x 129 type:1.61.050.443 | |||
| Controller: | cpu (i3-2120 4x 3.3 GHz), ssd hd (64 GB, 6Gb/s), ddr3 ram (8 GB) | |||
| Sensors: | Camera: | X | Compass: | - |
| Ultrasonic: | - | Gyroscope: | x | |
| Infrared: | Camera | Accelerometer: | x | |
| Laser: | X | Mechanical: | x | |
| Other: | Kinect V1.0 | |||
| Communication: | Ethernet & USB | |||
Robot – Software
| Operating system: | Linux Ubuntu and ROS |
| Programed in: | C/C++ |
| Tools: | Geany, Catkin, Cmake, … |
| Other: |
Robot – Strategy
| 1st task: | Use laserscanners and IMU for navigation |
| 2nd task: | Detect rows and obstacles with laserscanner |
| 3rd task: | Use a Kinect Sensor HD Kamera for the detection of the plants |
| Free style: | Detect, collect and map existing iron on a given field |
Robot – Investment
| Work hours: | 160 h |
| Components: | A lot… |
| Other: | |
| Sponsored by: | MPT, University Hohenheim, Mädler |
Problems / Challenges
| Robot needs precise row navigation, because of its size. The maximum speed of the robot is to slow to reach the end of the crop rows in the tasks |
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