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Planting Instructions

The H2L Robotics Selector travels on top of tulip beds by following the GPS coordinates recorded by the planting tractors. Therefore, for the Selector to be precise in its movement on top of the tulip beds, care should be taken to record precise GPS coordinates during the planting of the tulip fields.

Planting machine configuration

  1. There needs to be a gps antenna just for registration on the planting machine.
  2. The start/stop of the planting machine needs to be connected to the registration system.
  3. The GPS-RTK correction needs to be used (sim card inserted).

Field Planning

For the best operation of the Selector 180 it is required that at the end of every planted row there is sufficient space for the machine to turn in place and treat the next row. To achieve this, a number of things need to be avoided.

Split in logical fields

Scheers

Avoid creating scheers, because they would be not enough space for the machine to turn during selection. Machine cannot turn at end of scheer (needs at least 6m headland) Issues can occur in case that a field is planted with multiple AB lines, like the one shown in the picture to the left, where you can see the purple and red rows have been planted based on a different AB line. The rows that do not travel up until the headland are marked with red arrows. After treating the marked rows, we can see that the machine would get trapped in a place where it cannot turn without stepping on the neighboring tulip beds.
If you create scheers that do not leave enough space for the machine to turn, it will still be possible to use the machine at the selection season, but you will have to turn it by hand at the end of every tulip bed.