Robs4Crops is a four-year project co-funded by the European Commission to accelerate the shift towards the large-scale implementation of robotics and automation across the European farming landscape.

To set up the project, you need to follow the steps below:

1. launch Farmsim
2. launch Farmbot
3. launch the Fields2cover API
4. launch the FarmingController
5. optionally launch the Farmingcontroller front-end

The architecture will be as follows:

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If you use this work, please cite it as below.

@inbook{VanEvert2024,
    author = {F. K. Van Evert and G. Avgoustakis and S. Baron and T. Bresilla and T. Dritsopoulos and S. Fountas and et al.},
    title = {Implementing a digital twin for flexible operation of agricultural robotics},
    year = {2024},
    editor = {E. van Henten and Y. Edan},
    booktitle = {Advances in Agri-Food Robotics Hb: Advances in Agri-Food Robotics},
    publisher = {Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited},
    url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.19103/AS.2023.0124.28}
}

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101016807.