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SCORPION

About the Project

Cost effective robots for smart precision spraying

Spraying in agriculture represents a societal challenge due to its negative impact in human and animal health and in environment. SCORPION’s objective is to develop a safe and autonomous precision spraying tool integrated into a modular unmanned tractor (robotics platform) to increase spraying efficiency, while reducing human and animal exposure to pesticides, water usage and labour costs. The project will focus on steep slope vineyards but with impact in other high-value permanent crops (olive groves and fruticulture). SCORPION’ will consider Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) receiver (triple frequency, PPP, OS-NMA, HAS) fused with other sensors, to increase the solution reliability, accuracy and safeness, and to enable autonomous ultraviolet light treatments (to eliminate partial need of phytopharmaceuticals) and to allow high precision spraying in permanent crops.

Acronym

SCORPION

Responsible

Filipe Neves Santos

Status

Closed

Starting Date

January 1, 2021

Ending Date

January 31, 2023

Effective End Date

January 31, 2023

Global Budget

€2,270,606.00

Funding

€531,675.00

Website

Datasheet

Members

Team Leaders

Alexandra Xavier

Centre Coordinator

Filipe Neves Santos

TEC4 Coordinator

Team Members

André Rodrigues Baltazar

Assistant Researcher

António Paulo Moreira

Research Coordinator

Armando Sousa

Senior Researcher

Filipe Neves Santos

TEC4 Coordinator

Héber Miguel Sobreira

Senior Researcher

José Boaventura

Research Coordinator

Mário Cunha

Senior Researcher

Paulo José Costa

Senior Researcher

Pedro Gomes Costa

Senior Researcher

Tatiana Martins Pinho

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