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Rishi Parikh

2 accepted papers

2023

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

ICRA 2023poster

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…

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2021

Learning Seed Placements and Automation Policies for Polyculture Farming with Companion Plants

ICRA 2021poster

Polyculture farming is a sustainable farming technique based on synergistic interactions between differing plant types that make them more resistant to diseases and pests and better able to retain water. Reduced uniformity can reduce use of pesticides, fertilizer, and water, but is more labor intens…

Cited by 16SourcecodeScholar