Robotic Farmer

Prospero: Robotic Farmer© Prospero is the working prototype of an Autonomous Micro Planter (AMP) that uses a combination of swarm and game theory and is the first of four steps. It is meant to be deployed as a group or "swarm". The other three steps involve autonomous robots that tend the crops, harvest them, and finally one robot that can plant, tend, and harvest--autonomously transitioning from one phase to another. Project Description Document (pdf) Watch Video (youtube) Platform: Parallax Designer: Dave Dorhout Awards: 1st Place 2010 MCU Challenge Schematic: See Description Document Photos: Project Photos (zip) Code: Source Code (zip)

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