Marginal land, such as highly sloped and uneven terrain, precludes farming with conventional agricultural machinery or tractors. On sloping terrain, tractor rollovers are frequent, and around 100 farmers are killed annually in the US. In the Great Plains states, around 11.6 mega hectare land is currently under 6 to 25 degree slope, which is unsuitable for farming with large conventional agricultural machines and left for cattle grazing. Therefore, we proposed a fleet of autonomous ground vehicles to perform essential agricultural operations on slopes. We have worked on multiple components in this project, as shown in the figure below. More details can be found in the PhD dissertation: Robotic Farming on Marginal, Highly Sloped Lands
