IRI - CANOPIES: A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016906

In CANOPIES, our goal is to develop a novel collaborative human-robot paradigm addressing the challenges of Human Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Collaboration in the unstructured highly dynamic outdoor environment of permanent crop farming (Agri-Food Area). Our approach will be demonstrated through an integrated system composed by farming robots and logistics robots with a real-world validation of two economically relevant agronomic operations within a table-grape vineyard: harvesting and pruning. CANOPIES represents the first attempt to introduce a collaborative paradigm in the field of precision agriculture for permanent crops where farmworkers can efficiently work together with teams of robots to perform agronomic interventions, like harvesting or pruning in table-grape vineyards. Both operations require complex processes of perception, communication, shared planning in agreement, prediction of human intentions, interaction and action. But also, both agronomic operations should be done in real life conditions, that is, in changing illumination and cast shadows, changing agronomic situations, where the vine branches or grapes can make it difficult to harvest or prune in a safe manner, due to the robot physical proximity to the human, while operating in real time. CANOPIES ambition will be achieved by introducing: i) novel human-robot interaction methodologies for enhanced safety and coexistence, ii) novel human-robot collaboration methodologies for increased system adaptability and intuitive usability; iii) novel multi-robot coordination methodologies for improved scalability. CANOPIES impact will contribute to filling the current gap in the development of fully autonomous robotic solutions for permanent crops by introducing a novel concept of farming robots, where we leverage an effective interaction with the human workers to mitigate the greater complexity of permanent crops as compared with field crops.

Website: http://www.canopies-project.eu/

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Journal Publications

P.T. Singamaneni, P. Bachiller, L.J. Manso, A. Garrell Zulueta, A. Sanfeliu, A. Spalanzani and R. Alami. A survey on socially aware robot navigation: taxonomy and future challenges. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024, to appear.

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T. Ciarfuglia, I. Motoi, L. Saraceni, M. Fawakherji, A. Sanfeliu and D. Nardi. Weakly and semi-supervised detection, segmentation and tracking of table grapes with limited and noisy data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 205: 107624, 2023.

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G. Coll, I.J. Torres, A. Grau, E. Guerra and A. Sanfeliu. Accurate detection and depth estimation of table grapes and peduncles for robot harvesting, combining monocular depth estimation and CNN methods. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture: 108362, 2023.

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W.O. Chamorro, J. Solà and J. Andrade-Cetto. Event-based line SLAM in real-time. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3): 8146-8153, 2022.

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M. Peral, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Efficient hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(4): 10272-10279, 2022.

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M. Saboia Da Silva, L. Clark, V. Thangavelu, J. Edlund, K. Otsu, G.J. Correa, V.S. Varadharajan, A. Santamaria-Navarro, T. Touma, A. Bouman, H. Melikyan, T. Pailevanian, S. Kim, A. Archanian, T.S. Vaquero, G. Beltrame, N. Napp, G. Pessin and A. Agha-mohammadi. ACHORD: Communication-aware multi-robot coordination with intermittent connectivity. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(4): 10184-10191, 2022.

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O. Gil, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Social robot navigation tasks: Combining machine learning techniques and Social Force Model. Sensors, 21(7087): 23, 2021.

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Conference Publications

O. Gil and A. Sanfeliu. Human motion trajectory prediction using the Social Force Model for real-time and low computational cost applications, 6th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2023, Portugal, pp. 1-12, Springer, to appear.

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J.E. Domínguez and A. Sanfeliu. Inference vs. explicitness. Do we really need the perfect predictor? The human-robot collaborative object transportation case, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 1866-1871.

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J.E. Domínguez and A. Sanfeliu. Improving human-robot interaction effectiveness in human-robot collaborative object transportation using force prediction, 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023, Detroit, MI, USA, pp. 7839-7845.

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O. Gil and A. Sanfeliu. Human motion trajectory prediction using the Social Force Model for real-time and low computational cost applications, 6th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2023, Portugal, pp. 1-12, Springer, to appear.

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J. Laplaza, R. Romero, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Body gesture recognition to control a social mobile robot, 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, Stockholm, in Companion of the HRI'23, pp. 456-460.

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J.E. Domínguez, N.A. Rodríguez and A. Sanfeliu. Perception-intention-action cycle as a human acceptable way for improving human-robot collaborative tasks, 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, Stockholm, in Companion of the HRI'23, pp. 567-571.

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E. Repiso, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Real-life experiment metrics for evaluating human-robot collaborative navigation tasks, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 660-667.

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J. Laplaza, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context attention: Human motion prediction using context information and deep learning attention models, 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2022, Zaragoza, Spain, Vol 590 of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pp. 102-112, 2023.

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J. Laplaza, N.A. Rodríguez, J.E. Domínguez, F. Herrero, S. Hernández, A. López, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. IVO Robot: A new social robot for Human-Robot collaboration, 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 860–864.

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J. Laplaza, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context and intention aware 3D human body motion prediction using an attention deep learning model in handover tasks, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022, Kyoto, pp. 4743-4748.

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J. Laplaza, A. Garrell Zulueta, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context and intention for 3D human motion prediction: Experimentation and user study in handover tasks, 31st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2022, Napoli, Italy, pp. 630-635.

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O. Castro, E. Repiso, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Classification of humans social relations within urban areas, 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2022, Zaragoza, Spain, Vol 590 of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pp. 27-39, 2023.

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J. Laplaza, A. Pumarola, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Attention deep learning based model for predicting the 3D human body pose using the robot human handover phases, 30th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2021, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 161-166.

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Journal Publications

P.T. Singamaneni, P. Bachiller, L.J. Manso, A. Garrell Zulueta, A. Sanfeliu, A. Spalanzani and R. Alami. A survey on socially aware robot navigation: taxonomy and future challenges. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024, to appear.

T. Ciarfuglia, I. Motoi, L. Saraceni, M. Fawakherji, A. Sanfeliu and D. Nardi. Weakly and semi-supervised detection, segmentation and tracking of table grapes with limited and noisy data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 205: 107624, 2023.

G. Coll, I.J. Torres, A. Grau, E. Guerra and A. Sanfeliu. Accurate detection and depth estimation of table grapes and peduncles for robot harvesting, combining monocular depth estimation and CNN methods. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture: 108362, 2023.

W.O. Chamorro, J. Solà and J. Andrade-Cetto. Event-based line SLAM in real-time. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3): 8146-8153, 2022.

M. Peral, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Efficient hand gesture recognition for human-robot interaction. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(4): 10272-10279, 2022.

O. Gil, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Social robot navigation tasks: Combining machine learning techniques and Social Force Model. Sensors, 21(7087): 23, 2021.

Conference Publications

O. Gil and A. Sanfeliu. Human motion trajectory prediction using the Social Force Model for real-time and low computational cost applications, 6th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2023, Portugal, pp. 1-12, Springer, to appear.

J.E. Domínguez and A. Sanfeliu. Inference vs. explicitness. Do we really need the perfect predictor? The human-robot collaborative object transportation case, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 1866-1871.

J.E. Domínguez and A. Sanfeliu. Improving human-robot interaction effectiveness in human-robot collaborative object transportation using force prediction, 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023, Detroit, MI, USA, pp. 7839-7845.

O. Gil and A. Sanfeliu. Human motion trajectory prediction using the Social Force Model for real-time and low computational cost applications, 6th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2023, Portugal, pp. 1-12, Springer, to appear.

J. Laplaza, R. Romero, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. Body gesture recognition to control a social mobile robot, 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, Stockholm, in Companion of the HRI'23, pp. 456-460.

J.E. Domínguez, N.A. Rodríguez and A. Sanfeliu. Perception-intention-action cycle as a human acceptable way for improving human-robot collaborative tasks, 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023, Stockholm, in Companion of the HRI'23, pp. 567-571.

E. Repiso, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Real-life experiment metrics for evaluating human-robot collaborative navigation tasks, 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023, Busan, Korea, pp. 660-667.

J. Laplaza, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context attention: Human motion prediction using context information and deep learning attention models, 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2022, Zaragoza, Spain, Vol 590 of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pp. 102-112, 2023.

J. Laplaza, N.A. Rodríguez, J.E. Domínguez, F. Herrero, S. Hernández, A. López, A. Sanfeliu and A. Garrell Zulueta. IVO Robot: A new social robot for Human-Robot collaboration, 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 860–864.

J. Laplaza, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context and intention aware 3D human body motion prediction using an attention deep learning model in handover tasks, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022, Kyoto, pp. 4743-4748.

J. Laplaza, A. Garrell Zulueta, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Context and intention for 3D human motion prediction: Experimentation and user study in handover tasks, 31st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2022, Napoli, Italy, pp. 630-635.

O. Castro, E. Repiso, A. Garrell Zulueta and A. Sanfeliu. Classification of humans social relations within urban areas, 5th Iberian Robotics Conference, 2022, Zaragoza, Spain, Vol 590 of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, pp. 27-39, 2023.

J. Laplaza, A. Pumarola, F. Moreno-Noguer and A. Sanfeliu. Attention deep learning based model for predicting the 3D human body pose using the robot human handover phases, 30th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2021, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 161-166.