Alexis Boulay

Alexis Boulay

CIFRE PhD student with Farm3

Me

I am a PhD student carrying out a thesis resulting from a collaboration between Farm3 company, the RoBioSS team from Institut Pprime and the AUCTUS team.

I began my PhD in the AUCTUS team in June 2022, before that, I had been working as an engineer for 2 months, setting up an experiment for Benjamin Camblor’s thesis. Back then I was freshly graduated from the engineering school Télécom Physique Strasbourg.

My PhD

Assisting the human by transferring skills to the robot in teleoperated vertical agriculture

Keywords : Shared autonomy, telerobotics

Abstract : In recent decades, agricultural sector has benefited greatly from technological advances, such as the use of machines or semi-automated tools. Those improvements help to considerably reduce the drudgery of human work and increase agricultural productivity. However, kept human as a key part is mandatory in such a living environment. Human-robot interactions are meant to be at the center of the agricultural activity.

In this context Farm3 developed The Cube, a completely modular vertical farm allowing total climatic control, thus making it possible to grow all kind of plants virtually anyywhere. In order to maintain a stable environment, and simplify the way of nurtering the plants, this thesis aim at developing a telerobotic system based on shared autonomy.

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