The current VineRobot prototype

While many of us may fantasize about running a vineyard someplace like the south of France， doing so wouldn‘t actually be all 。。. well， wine and roses. For one thing， you’d need to regularly walk up and down all those rows of vines， continuously stopping to check on the plants themselves and their grapes. It‘s the sort of thing that it would be nice if a robot could do. A robot like the VineRobot.

The robot is currently being developed through the European Union VineRobot project. Led by Spain’s Universidad de La Rioja， the project involves eight partner groups from the wine-making countries of France， Italy， Germany and Spain.

The envisioned final version of the VineRobot

The idea is that the solar-powered VineRobot will move autonomously on its four wheels， using RGB stereoscopic machine vision and GPS to navigate its way up and down the rows of the vineyard.

Along the way， it will utilize technologies such as chlorophyll-based fluorescence sensing and infrared thermography to non-invasively monitor parameters such as vegetative growth， grape yield， grape composition （from which grape ripeness can be deduced）， and soil moisture. That data will be wirelessly transmitted from the robot to a satellite， and from there to an app on the viticulturist‘s mobile device.

According to the project organizers， the VineRobot should be faster and more precise than humans doing the same job， plus it should be cheaper and allow for more flexibility than using manned aircraft or aerial drones.

The project is due to wrap up at the end of next year.

自動(dòng)翻譯僅供參考

VineRobot讓栽培者足不出戶也能照顧好葡萄

當(dāng)前VineRobot原型

雖然我們很多人可能會幻想著跑了一個(gè)葡萄園某處像法國南部，這樣做不會真的是所有的。。.好，酒和玫瑰。首先，你需要會經(jīng)常步行上下所有的排葡萄樹，不斷地停下來檢查植物本身和他們的葡萄。這之類的事情，這將是很好的，如果機(jī)器人能做到。機(jī)器人像VineRobot

機(jī)器人目前正在通過歐盟VineRobot項(xiàng)目開發(fā)的。西班牙的大學(xué)德拉里奧哈的帶領(lǐng)下，該項(xiàng)目涉及8伙伴團(tuán)體，來自法國，意大利，德國和西班牙的葡萄酒釀造國家

的VineRobot的設(shè)想最終版本

我們的想法是，solar-供電VineRobot會自動(dòng)將其四個(gè)輪子，使用RGB立體機(jī)器視覺和GPS導(dǎo)航的方式向上和向下的葡萄園的行。

一路上，它會利用技術(shù)，如葉綠素為基礎(chǔ)的熒光檢測和紅外熱到非侵入式監(jiān)視器的參數(shù)，如營養(yǎng)生長，葡萄產(chǎn)量，葡萄組合物（從其中葡萄成熟可以推斷），和土壤濕度。這些數(shù)據(jù)會從機(jī)器人到衛(wèi)星無線發(fā)送，并從那里的葡萄栽培的移動(dòng)設(shè)備上的應(yīng)用程序。

據(jù)項(xiàng)目主辦方介紹，VineRobot應(yīng)該更快，更精確的比人做同樣的工作，再加上它。要便宜一些，并允許比使用有人駕駛飛機(jī)或空中無人駕駛飛機(jī)更大的靈活性

該項(xiàng)目是由于包在明年年底