Ananth Rao

Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists

The AlphaGarden is an automated testbed for indoor polyculture farming which combines a first-order plant simulator, a gantry robot, a seed planting algorithm, plant phenotyping and tracking algorithms, irrigation sensors and algorithms, and custom pruning tools and algorithms. In this paper, we sys…