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Autonomous Agricultural Spraying
Head: Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Contact: Anthony (Tony) Stentz (tony+@cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
National Robotics Engineering Center
10 40th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Associated center: NREC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - June 2006.

The project goal is to make agricultural spraying significantly cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly through automation, such that a single operator, from a remote location, can oversee the nighttime operation of at least four spraying vehicles.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Cristian Dima - NREC Commercialization Specialist <csd@cmu.edu>
• Herman Herman - Principal NREC Commercialization Special <h.herman@cs.cmu.edu>
• David Stager - Senior Commercialization Specialist <xxx>
• [Home] Anthony (Tony) Stentz - Research Professor/Assoc Dir NREC <tony+@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Carl Wellington - NREC Commercialization Specialist <carl@wellington.name>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection
  C. Wellington, A. Courville, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, June, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3208 KB] copyrighted

• Online Adaptive Rough-Terrain Navigation in Vegetation
  C. Wellington and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, April, 2004, pp. 96 - 101. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1916 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Predictions of the Load-Bearing Surface for Autonomous Rough-Terrain Navigation in Vegetation
  C. Wellington and A. Stentz
  International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, July, 2003, pp. 49-54. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3246 KB] copyrighted

• A System for Semi-Autonomous Tractor Operations
  A. Stentz, C. Dima, C. Wellington, H. Herman, and D. Stager
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 13, No. 1, July, 2002, pp. 87-103. [Abstract]