IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine - December 2023 [Cover4]

21 DECEMBER 2023 IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE in a natural environment subject to weather conditions and competition from neighboring plants, the phenotyping process is still mostly performed manually. Although remote sensing platforms—such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), air- planes, and satellites—are increasingly being used for mea- surements from higher altitudes, the limited resolution of their sensors and plant self-occlusion can cause issues when phe- notyping at the leaf and subleaf scale. The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) presented in this work enables automated high-throughput, high-resolution phenotyping in the field. It is equipped with multiple laser and camera sensors to capture accurate plant representations. The characteristics of the two system modalities are com- plementary: the 3D laser scanner can capture larger sections of the field in a short time, while the cameras focus more on individual plants and are suitable for reconstructing high-res-

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