D5.3 Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Plant Scanner Video - INRAE - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement
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D5.3 Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Plant Scanner Video

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(Video script) The ROMI Plant Scanner is a plant phenotyping robot that generates high quality and high precision imaging data. It allows us to analyze the shoot architecture of a medium sized plant in indoor conditions in three dimensions. The image acquisition is non-destructive, allowing life-time analysis of the same plant, or the option to reuse a plant imaged in the Plant Scanner in multiple analyses. The robot creates a phenotype of a single plant in a few minutes and can make up to a hundred in a day. Also, automated analysis pipelines have been optimized to take raw data as input and directly deliver the final analysis in a format for biologist end-users. This phenotyping is dedicated to Research & Development teams in plant science. Precision phenotyping is becoming invaluable to current questions of modern biology, seeking a quantitative understanding of the mechanisms governing plant growth and development. In relation to their sessile lifestyle, plant shoot systems generally explore the above-ground space in three dimensions. To make some shoot traits accessible to routine or exploratory phenotyping Automation is crucial. Moving the camera rather than the plant ensures that the plant can remain still - providing more precision. The Romi Plant Scanner could be used to automate the phenotyping of any trait of the shoot system of a single plant. The plant Scanner is a fixed phenotyping station. Its reasonable size can easily fit into 2 to 3 meters squared, ideally near to a facility where plants are individually cultured in moveable pots. The ROMI has developed a proof-of-concept scenario using a challenging task: measuring the in-flor-escence phyllo-taxis of the model plant Arabodopsis thaliana. The hardware design shares many components from the Romi Rover and it shares the same camera module with the Romi Cable Bot, ensuring reusability and maintainability across the full ROMI stack. The rover is available as an Open Source project. All of the source code and plans are freely available. This allows us to improve the design over time using input from farmers and engineers. That is also why we made the design modular using components that can be found “off-the-shelf” or that can be produced using 3D printers and laser cutters. People with development skills can also contribute. Our software is available online on Github. This makes the Romi Scanner a good platform to experiment with innovative tools for farming research.

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hal-04723122 , version 1 (06-10-2024)

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Fabrice Besnard, Christophe Godin, Peter Hanappe, Timothée Wintz, Jonathan Minchin, et al.. D5.3 Robots for Microfarms (ROMI) - Plant Scanner Video. 2020. ⟨hal-04723122⟩
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