Projektsuche

RoboForest - Robot for georeferenced sensor-based pruning and vitality monitoring of forest seedlings

Authority

Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Lower Saxony and Hamburg

Contact

Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

RoboForest - Robot for georeferenced sensor-based pruning and vitality monitoring of forest seedlings

Project description

After drought and pest infestation have destroyed large parts of the forest, reforestation poses challenges: an area with new seedlings requires several years of intensive care, for which there is hardly any personnel.

The solution: a mobile, self-sufficient robot platform travels over the newly cultivated areas at regular intervals. As soon as the seedlings are planted, they are entered on a map and made known to the robot, which can localise and navigate itself. It uses its flexible pruning tool to remove unwanted growth from the young plants. At the same time, a multi-sensor system records their health status. As many forward-looking companies already have robot platforms, this fully automated care of newly planted cultivation areas does not even require large financial investments.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Keywords

  • Forestry
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)

Main funding source

Rural development 2023-2027 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 127 of Reg. 2021/2115)

OG contact information

Hochschule für Kunst und angewandte Wissenschaft (HAWK)
Von-Ossietzky-Straße 99
37085 Göttingen

Phone: +49/551/3705-266

Email: thomas.linkugel@hawk.de

Type of OG partners

  • Land owner
  • Forester
  • Advisor
  • Researcher
  • foresters' organisation/association

Begin of project

2023

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

468,695

Link 1

EIP Website

NUTS3 CODE

DE91B – Göttingen

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