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In the Freestyle task all teams decided to present there idea in the field. Team FREDT with there robot Helios evo won, Acorn became second and ATH Rover third.

Results freestyle task

In the field this year’s Sensing & Mapping task had an additional task requiring robots to remove 5 cans and place them outside the crop on the headland. Carbonite won because it managed to deliver all cans to the headland, Bullseye became second with 4 cans and CERES II third.

Results of the Sensing and Mapping task in the field

In the sensing and mapping task, the robots scout for five weeds and five cans in the field. It was one of the most difficult tasks in the 2022 competition. Only 3 teams managed to earn points. Winner FloriBot detected six out of ten. Kamaro became second and CERES II third.

Results Sensing & Mapping in simulation

In the Field Navigation task, CERES II managed to hit no plants and drove 50 meters in the field within the limited time of 3 minutes. HELIOS evo won the second prize. FloriBot finished in third place.

Results Field Navigation

The winner of the Navigation task in simulation of the international Field Robot event is Carbonite. They managed to drive 142 meters in a virtual field in 3 minutes, with damaging 13 plants. The second place went to CERES II, and Kamaro came in third.

Results Navigation task.

The Field Robot Event is a partner of the DLG Feldtage event. The DLG is streaming this event live on its digital platform.

Information on how to participate:
• Attending this virtual event is free of charge and requires a simple registration on DLG’s digital platform.
• The link to the registration is available here.

Have a look at the tasks, the rules have been updated! They are also available as a pdf in the download section.

For all teams that want to participate in the 2022 event, we organise regularly Zoom meetings. Next: June 8th from 16:00-17:00.

We will talk about the organisation, tasks, simulation environment and have a Q&A.

The Zoom meeting link will be sent to the Field Robot Event mailing list subscribers.

We have published new rules for your own robot model used in simulation. Have a look in 0. Hybrid event under Contest

In our first teams meeting we explained the virtual part of the event. A pdf of the presentation can be found under Downloads.

For all teams that want to participate in the 2022 event, we will organise a Zoom meeting on Friday, March 4^th from 14:00-16:00.

Content:

• Information on how the event will be held.
• Presentation of the simulation environment.
• Discuss the preliminary tasks.

The Zoom meeting link will be sent to the Field Robot Event mailing list subscribers.

The CLAAS foundation will again in 2022 financially support new teams coming to the event! You can apply for the support directly on their website.

Thanks at lot already to Sylvia Looks from the CLAAS foundation!

In the meanwhile we finalised the proceedings from 2021. For those of you who want to get started with the preparation for 2022, please have a look at the team paper and descriptions in the proceedings how they started and were more or less successful with their chosen strategies. The proceedings are a good preparation because in 2022 there will be similar challenges like described in task 1, task 3 and of course task 5 from 2021. More details will be soon on this website.

We are happy to inform you that we will conduct a Field Robot Event in 2022. Although the pandemic situation continues we do not want to give up. After some discussions we want to offer a hybrid version of the event: a mix of a virtual and field contest! We also will return to the DLG Field Days and prepare everything to be controlled from and on the DLG site. Therefore, robot teams are invited to participate without travelling (virtual event) or come physically as usual together with your own robot (field event). More details will be available soon. Save the date: 14^th to 16^th of June 2022 in Kirschgartshausen/Mannheim, Germany.

Due to the unpredictable pandemic situation there will be perhaps special rules coming up or even a cancellation. Therefore, please don’t blame us for any inconveniences.

Now available:  All proceedings of previous Field Robot Events!

See the Downloads tab.