An Initial Look at Robotics in Cotton Harvesting

Two small robots were procured and field tested in terms of mobility and data collection in a cotton field.  One robot is the Jackal by ClearPath Technologies.  The other is the TerraSentia by Earthsense, Inc.  Additionally, consideration was given to the possibility of ginning cotton on a field-based robotic platform.  The report will cover description of the two robots as well as preliminary testing and collected data.  It will also cover the thought processes involved in implementing field-based ginning as well as some planning for small-scale-gin data collection to enable design for field-based ginning on an autonomous platform.