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One cool related topic is how much agricultural automation gear costs. For a robo project we used a trimble GPS with sub-meter resolution that cost around 2k, b
by makmanalp 12y ago
One cool related topic is how much agricultural automation gear costs. For a robo project we used a trimble GPS with sub-meter resolution that cost around 2k, but honestly I feel like with a local radio base-station and a gps you could probably come up with something similarly accurate and cheap for way less money! I'm sure when it comes to controlling the combines automatically, it gets even more exorbitant.
- toomuchtodo 12y agohttp://hackaday.com/2013/08/05/centimeter-level-precision-gps-for-500/ http://hackaday.com/2013/08/05/centimeter-level-precision-gp...
- randomdata 12y agoDefinitely. We looked into adding RTK autosteer to our tractors a few years ago. It was about $10,000 to get into a full autosteer system per machine, plus recurring costs for the correction data, which seems to be the preferred way to go. That just to drive straight. The systems that can handle turning on the headlands or synchronize between machines run even higher, at least at the time. We decided it wasn't feasible for our operation and haven't reevaluated. However, if you can completely replace an operator as a tiny autonomous combine could, costs of that magnitude become negligible.