Video clips of Tillett and Hague Technology in action
The following video clips illustrate some of the technology that we have developed in recent years. To view a clip click on the thumbnail picture. A brief description is provided against each thumbnail. Further information can be found by clicking on the text link within the description. Each video is in Windows Media File format, runs for about 30 seconds and is typically less than 6MB in size.
The technology behind this Robocrop within-row weeder
was developed as part of a collaborative
project and is shown is shown operating here in a brasica crop.
Automatic thinning
of drilled crops could dramatically reduce labour requirements and
trials of our prototype machines in California have been very
sucessful..
Robocrop inter-row cultivators
are now widely used to improve the efficiency and quality of inter-row
cultivation whilst reducing driver work load.
This 12m span
high work rate inter-row hoe
comprises three 4m cultivator sections each with its own camera and
side shifting frame enabling it to span three independent drill bouts.
It is operating in an organic cereal crop.
This 20m span high work rate vision guided
band sprayer
uses four cameras and four side shift sections. Precision
placement provides opportunities for more effective treatment using less
material.
This
autonomous vehicle
represented the start of our vision guided work and was publicly
demonstrated in 1996. Guidance down rows was relative to crop
rows and individual crop plants were squirted as an array of nozzles
passed over them.