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Do you mean to tell me that such a small operation just happened to have lying around some old lidar systems? Or does the "steer" in "auto-steer" refer to a bo
by freeopinion 6y ago
Do you mean to tell me that such a small operation just happened to have lying around some old lidar systems?
Or does the "steer" in "auto-steer" refer to a bovine?
- qchris 6y agoYou certainly don't need lidar to do auto-steering on a farm that you own yourself. You can get decent straight-line results using a PID controller on a compass alone, and tossing in a GPS module would make the whole thing even more accurate and robust. As as the OP said, there's already a bunch of open-source stuff out there to help make that happen.
- OldHand2018 6y agohttps://www.farmprogress.com/affordable-auto-steer https://www.farmprogress.com/affordable-auto-steer You program your desired path into the system and it uses GPS to follow the path, using a device that turns the steering wheel as necessary. The farmer is still required to avoid unexpected obstacles, usually by stopping and moving the obstacle. Farmers have been using GPS since the 1980s, long before the rest of the general public.
- wrkronmiller 6y agoIt's doubtful that advanced computer vision is required to steer a tractor around a field. Adding it might improve yield somewhat, but consider the law of diminishing returns.
- mattbk1 6y agoIf you assume there isn't anything in the field for the tractor to run over, you can just use GPS.
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoMaybe. Many people would be amazed by what I have lying around in my basement. However, the LIDAR is gone: I only needed for a single project and I shipped it to the client.
- freeopinion 6y agoThat was a pretty dumb farm joke. But it got funnier when so many techies got distracted by the lidar reference.