Issue link: https://autonomy.trimble.com/en/resources/i/1410491
TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS RESULTS One operator (called a shepherd) can manage up to 50 robots using a website available on a PC or phone. The shepherd tracks the robots' work in real-time and remotely monitors energy consumption, rotation speed of each motor for each robot, the battery level, and charge level of the solar panel. The shepherd can also access the history of the last 24 hours of operation, including details like scheduling, working hours, recorded issues, mowers' self- cleaning operations, completed journeys, and quantity of cut grass. The robots are able to move in varying patterns: • Standard – from place to place depending on the job. Especially suitable for plots with a great density of obstacles (up to 10,000 obstacles per hectare) such as vineyards or photovoltaic fields. • Methodic – operates in parallel lane. Ideal for free space environments such as gardens. • Trip – plot-to-plot scenarios as defined by the shepherd. • Tracks – operates in a straight lane. Suitable for railways and sidewalks where clear lanes are defined (the ideal lane is less than 0.10m apart) The first step to begin a job is to define the application limits. The Vitirover team has a special tool that collects the points to define the polygon limits. This custom tool uses a Trimble MB-Two with RTK options. Once gathered, the points are uploaded to the cloud. When a Vitirover robot is placed in the area to be mowed, it connects to the cloud to download the defined plot to work, as well as the located and time stamped jobs made before by other robots. It is able now to automatically run an algorithm to determine the optimal route to unmowed places. The number of robots used to complete a job is dependent on the surface to work and is determined by the shepherd. During any operation, each robot continuously collects data, comparing the quantity of electricity consumed to the amount of grass to be cut, automatically calculating where it's going and how much work is still needed to be done. It can recharge itself with sun power or the shepherd can change the battery each day. If a robot needs help, it automatically sends a text to the shepherd. The most recent applications have been along high-speed train tracks, airport tarmacs and highways. Vitirover developers continue to add new features to the Vitirover mower robot. For instance, the Ground Robot for vineyArd monitoring and ProtEction (GRAPE) includes a robotic arm that can automatically dispense pheromones traps creating sexual confusion for the grape worms and the Vineyard Vigilant & INNovative Ecological Rover (VVINNER) includes cameras and weather sensors to track insect population cycles, predict harvest productivity and measure vineyard strength. © 2020, Trimble Inc. All rights reserved. Trimble, the Globe & Triangle logo are trademarks of Trimble Inc., registered in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. TRIMBLE Integrated Technologies Email: sales-intech@trimble.com Website: www.trimble.com/Precision-GNSS Vitirover Email: info@vitirover.com Website: www.vitirover.fr/en-home