Current projects
 | CERBERUS – Multiplatform field surveillance for integral crop health, early detection and actuation.Grant Number: 101134878 – HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01-16 Funding Agency: European Commission Project duration: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2027 ARL Role: Project coordination and management, software integration, robot behaviors, user-robot interaction, and autonomous mapping Objective: CERBERUS project capitalises on early pest detection and intelligent spray applications to reduce pesticide use and sustainably eradicate pests at early stages. Specifically, it combines Copernicus-enhanced observation models, IoT insect traps, robot monitoring and citizen-generated data to establish a cloud platform merging diverse information sources. CERBERUS generates AI-based risk maps and spraying recommendations from its innovative crop surveillance system. Tested on six important pests across key Mediterranean crops, CERBERUS embraces a multi-actor approach, fostering collaboration among academia, technology firms, citizens and government agencies. Partners:  |
 | DRAGONBOT– Smart, automated harvesting of high-value crops in sustainable greenhousesGrant Number: INNEST/2023/106 – Proyectos estratégicos en cooperación Funding Agency: Agencia Valenciana de la Innovación Project duration: 20 April 2023 – 31 December 2025 Objective: Research and development of a new intelligent pitaya harvesting system based on an advanced robotic system with the capacity to execute a staggered harvest according to the state of maturity of each fruit using a vision and artificial intelligence system, promoting a more sustainable from a social, economic and environmental point of view Partners: Ingeniería y Desarrollos Renovables, Instituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial ai2, Agricultural Robotics Laboratory, Universitat Politècnica de València, NUTAI, GREENVISION. |
 
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ADOPTA – Adoption of PWM technologies for pesticide reductionGrant Number: PDC2022-133395-C42 Funding Agency: Government of Spain Project duration: 1 December 2022 – 30 November 2024 Objective: Validation of two variable rate sprayers by professional growers for commercial vineyards and olive groves ARL Role: Sprayer automation, software development, validation analysis Partners: 4 universities → Polytechnic University of Cataluña (UPC), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), University of Córdoba (UCO), and University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) |
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SMART AGRIVOLTAICAOverall Costs: 780,271 € Grant Number: INNEST/2022/115 Funding Agency: Government of Spain, Regional government Project duration: 1 May 2023 – 31 August 2024 Objective: The goal of the project is the development and implementation of a system that integrates agronomy with solar energy production, called Agrivoltaic System. In this project we apply digital agriculture to monitor the production of high-density figs and dragon fruit, processing data with AI to model crop growth and reusing solar energy to run two greenhouses in a circular way ARL Role: Design and implementation of monitoring system for the permanent registry of crop and environmental variables such as air temperature, relative humidity, CO2, solar radiation, canopy temperature and NDVI. Partners: INDEREN (Coordinator), UPV-ARL (Universitat Politècnica de València – Agricultural Robotics Laboratory), UPV-IAM (Universitat Politècnica de València – Instituto Agroforestal Mediterráneo), NUTAI Web page: www.smart-agrivoltaica.es |
Past projects
  | PIVOSGrant Number: PID2019-104289RB Funding Agency: Government of Spain Project duration: 1 June 2020 – 30 November 2023 Objective: Smart spraying for sustainable vineyards and olive groves ARL Role: Smart actuation and controls for nozzles and fans, prescription maps of spraying rates, and post-treatment mapping Partners: 4 universities → Polytechnic University of Cataluña (UPC), Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), University of Córdoba (UCO), and University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) |
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VINESCOUTOverall Costs: 2,129,456 € Grant Number: 737669 Funding Agency: European Comission H2020-FTI Pilot – 2016 (Innovation Action) Project duration: 1 December 2016 – 30 November 2020 Objective: Reach the commercial stage in 3 years for a scouting robot specialized in vineyard mapping ARL Role: Project coordination and management, software integration, robot behaviors, user-robot interaction, and autonomous mapping Partners: 4 partners (2 SME and 2 RTD organizations) from France, Portugal and Spain Go to VineScout webpage → |
1st & 2nd PROTOTYPES for VineRobot |
VINEROBOT
Total budget: 2M € Identifier: 610953 Funding Agency: European Comission FP7-ICT-2013-10 Robotics use cases & Accompanying measuresObjective: Design, development and deployment of a novel use-case agricultural robot as an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), equipped with several non-invasive sensing technologies ARL contribution: Automatic Navigation strategy. Anthocyanin sensor improvement. Mapping system, sensor data management and display Partners: 8 partners (5 SME and 3 RTD organizations) from France, Germany, Italy and Spain Go to VineRobot webpage → |
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CITRUSRECTotal budget: 139 000 € Identifier: RTA 2014 – 00025 – C05 – 01 Funding Agency: INIA (National Institute for Agricultural Research) Objective: Application of New Technologies to citrus harvesting ARL contribution: Design and implementation of yield/quality mapping engine in a human-assisted harvesting platform |
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3D Perception for agricultural roboticsFunding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science (CICYT – FEDER) Date: January 2010 – December 2010 Principal Investigator: Francisco Rovira-Más Approximate budget: 24,000 € |
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Autonomous guidance of agricultural vehicles with stereovision: navigation maps generation and control strategy (ATOE)Funding agency: Spanish Ministry of Science (CICYT – FEDER) Date: October 2006 – September 2009 Principal Investigator: Francisco Rovira-Más |
