Automated Agriculture

Increasing sustainability requirements, a rising lack of skilled workers, and the pressure to farm agricultural fields more efficiently are creating great challenges for enterprises. In contrast to standardized industrial environments, field work requires dealing with changing weather and soil conditions, unclear terrain, and often large operating areas. 

In these cases, automated machinery can provide significant relief: they carry out their work precisely, energy-efficiently and around the clock, and they take on physically demanding or monotonous labor, enabling resource-saving farming even when staff is scarce.

One key challenge is ensuring the efficient and robust collaboration of multiple autonomous machines. To guarantee continuous, interruption-free operation, field robots not only need to carry out their tasks precisely, but they also need coordinated networking, reliable charging options and flexible transport solutions.

Fraunhofer IVI supports you along the entire automated agriculture development chain: from developments in energy-efficient field robotics and intelligent charging infrastructure to cross-manufacturer machinery networking, swarm control strategies, robust transport solutions, and systems integration into existing procedures.