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Evolutionary Greenhouse Layout Optimization for Fast and Safe Robot Navigation

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2026-09-01
Robot-related Technology Wheeled/Tracked Robots Control/AI/SW
Greenhouse Layout Optimization Method to Reduce Robot Travel Time Using Genetic Algorithms

This technology utilizes a genetic algorithm to maximize the movement efficiency of robots within a greenhouse. By considering variables such as inter-bed distance, base station locations, and bed cut points, it generates a population of greenhouse layouts and determines the optimal configuration by setting robot travel time as the fitness function.

When greenhouse layouts are fixed, robots often face excessive travel times back to base stations during tasks like pesticide spraying or harvesting, which is exacerbated by limited battery capacity and restricted movement ranges.

This technology employs a genetic algorithm to repeatedly initialize, mutate, crossover, and recombine greenhouse layout populations, ultimately calculating the optimal aisle and bed configuration to minimize the time required for a robot to travel from any point in the greenhouse back to its base station.

Key Features:
  • Initializing the greenhouse layout population and calculating the fitness of each layout
  • Genetically mutating the greenhouse layout population and recombining them through crossover operations
  • Selecting the optimal layout population with high fitness from the recombined layouts
  • Determining whether the criteria are met based on the robot's travel time within the selected layout

Kyungpook National University
Ha Yu-shin | Woo Seung-min | Kim Young-soo | Kim Jun-hee | Mallipeddi Rammohan | Pamulapati Trinadh Reddy | Park Doo-san | Duyum Uye Daniel
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Date of application:
2019-10-28
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Patent registration number:
10-2188482
Industry
robot•automation
argriculture
Technology
Robotics
Artifical Intelligence
Country
Korea
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