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Assisting Polyculture Farming in Africa with Ken Goldberg

15 Feb, 2022

Assisting Polyculture Farming in Africa with Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg's latest publication with Simeon Adebola on his AlphaGarden Project was published in 2021 IEEE AFRICON. The article discusses how automating polyculture works in Africa. AlphaGarden is a polyculture garden tended by a robot using a learned control policy tuned with simulation, sensor, and camera data. AlphaGarden aims to optimize yield and diversity while minimizing water use. This extended abstract considers how its seed planting algorithm could be used by African farmers.

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