RHEA: Robot Fleets for Highly Efficient Agriculture and Forestry Management

“RHEA: Robot Fleets for Highly Efficient Agriculture and Forestry Management” (NMP2-LA-2010-245986) is a collaborative project of the 7th EU Framework Programme, coordinated by the CSIC, which brings together specialists in agriculture and forestry, computer vision, robotics, computer science and communications from 15 institutions and companies from eight European countries.rn rnThe fleet of robots will consist of airborne units and ground units that will carry vision sensors in different spectra to detect and locate patches of weeds. The ground units are also equipped with performance systems for the destruction of weeds by chemical or physical.rn