Agricultural rover · 2025
Agrobot field rover
A 4-wheel skid-steer field rover with RTK GNSS, a soil sensor array and a camera mast. The archetype behind most student agri-robotics projects — and the one with the most real-world failure modes.
$2.5k
open community builds
— DOF
Closed source
Why it matters
The category with genuine unsolved problems — soil variability, dust, water, GPS multipath. If you want research with real stakes, this is it.
Where it falls short
Skid steer on soil destroys odometry and compacts the bed. Budget for a real steering geometry if the science matters.
Read this if you plan to copy itThe parts below are the same classes of component at this platform scale — they are not the exact vendor parts. Use them to understand the architecture and to price a home-built equivalent.
What it is made of
| Subsystem | Comparable part | Price | Primary spec |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensors | u-blox ZED-F9P RTK GNSS | $220 | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou |
| Actuators | MyActuator RMD-X6 | $300 | ~12 N·m |
| Compute | Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) | $80 | 4× Cortex-A76 @ 2.4 GHz |
| Power | Molicel P42A (21700) | $8 | 4200 mAh |
Software you would touch
ROS 2 · Nav2 · RTKLIB / NTRIP · Python