Galirumi

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES AND BENEFITS

GALIRUMI specific objectives:

O1: Integrate Galileo receiver

O2: Improved weed detection

O3: Construct prototype electrocuting robot

O4: Construct prototype laser-based defoliating robot

O5: Software for robot navigation and mission planning and control

O6: Field-test robots in operational environment

O7: evaluate business models: robot-for-purchase and robot-as-a-service

GALIRUMI will significantly reduce:

Manual labour for weeding

Weed management cost

Damage to grassland from the application of herbicide

Impact of dairy farming on the environment

Dairy cow discomfort

Benefits from GALILEO adoption

GALILEO differentiators (multiple frequencies with modern modulations) enable robust navigation for autonomous agricultural robots even in locations where other GNSS do not work sufficiently well.
GALIRUMI benefits from GALILEO adoption:
Better resilience to multipath due to more robust modulations, appropriate for scenarios without a clear vision of the sky due to near obstacles.
An improvement of the availability of satellites in sight when used in combination with other GNSS constellations.
Sub-metric position accuracy using E1+E5 (AltBOC) frequency bands without RTK corrections.
Upcoming GALILEO improvements:
High Accuracy Service (HAS):
<20 cm accuracy without using RTK corrections
Expected by 2021-2023
OS Navigation Message Authentication (OS-NMA):
Authentication of navigation data -> resilience to spoofing
Expected by 2020-2022