Swarm Robotics Application for Gathering Soil Samples

Abstract

In this work, researchers created two ground robots that can be easily deployed and collect a soil sample. Anyone, especially farmers, can accessibly use these devices. The system is tested in an open space-controlled environment with different scenarios, allowing the GPS location of each robot to be detected by the central unit. The user sets the waypoints of each robot then the system logs the date/time, target waypoint, reached waypoint, the difference between the target and reached, and the amount of soil gathered.