xtUML in the Field

ROGO Ag is a provider of automated soil sampling for agriculture. An application specific robot quickly and precisely gathers samples of soil from a farm field according to predefined criteria. Quality of data, repeatability and efficiency are maximized over manual soil sampling methods.

Watch a video of the robot in action.

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xtUML serves in the enhanced GPS navigation, inertial guidance and robotic control sequencing.

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xtUML models of the ‘mission’ and ‘navigation’ subsystems are shown.

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Another model of the model-based model compiler which generates ‘ROS-aware Python’ provides a Shlaer-Mellor compliant software architecture.

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See the entire presentation on the xtuml.org website here.

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