Field Robot 2025
Milano, Italy
Field Robot Event 2025 (FRE2025) will take place in Milano, Italy, from June 9 to June 12, 2025, at Agriturismo da Pippo. This competition is open to universities worldwide, offering a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of autonomous farming and agricultural robotics. Blog update: 10/04/2025 — CULS Robotics Team Blog (CRT-B)
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Official announcement
Competition Challenges FRE2025:
- 🚜 Task 1: Autonomous Maize Field Navigation
- 🌽 Task 2: Autonomous Maize Field Navigation with Cobs Detection
- 🍎 Task 3: Fruit Mapping
- 🍄 Task 4: Bioluminescent Fungi Discovery
- ✨ Task 5: Freestyle
💡 Want to compete? Registration opens on March 3, 2025, and closes on April 25, 2025. The registration fee per team will be announced at the opening of registration.
🤖 Seeking sponsorship? New teams can apply for sponsorship to support their participation, with funding up to €1500 per team by CLAAS-Stiftung. More details and application link: https://www.claas-foundation.com/students/field-robot-event/application.
📢 Have questions about the rules? Join our FRE2025 Discord server now to get updates, connect with teams, and participate in the Q&A discussion: https://discord.gg/56unzZVBqn.
Read the rules now!
🌐 Website Update: Further event details will soon be available on our website: https://fieldrobot.nl/event/
📍 Getting here: The event venue is 12 km from Milano Linate Airport and 17 km from Milano Central Station (Google Maps).
CULS Robotics Team Blog (CRT-B)
CULS Robotics is a new Czech student team for Field Robot 2025! Yes, it took only 10 years to find a group of excited students and „start again”!
The team of 3 students was founded in Czech University of Life Science Prague. The members are all in the last year of their study, so the priorities a bit colide with with
details like finishing diploma thesis or final exams … but their self-motivation is still strong so hopefully we will see them all competing in Italy in June.
CRT will compete with robot Matty M02 — the green one, red one is a backup or it will be used for the free style discipline. Robot is equipped only with
OAK-D Pro camera and it is programmed in Python using OSGAR framework.
Team members:
- Simona (team lead)
- Ondra (software)
- Franta (hardware)
Week 18 (18/2)
This was the very first time we met with Franta and Ondra at the university. It was great that they had already some basic experience with OSGAR and they had
the development environment already prepared. The only needed detail was update of Matty driver to the latest version.
Two robots for two students looked like good match.
Unfortunately Franta's Win11 did not recognize the ESP USB-serial, so only Ondra could directly connect his laptop
to robot via USB. Never-the-less the goal was to use onboard ODroid, and for that putty was enough.
The 1st lessons learned was — try screen -dr just in case somebody is already using robot, otherwise:
screen workon osgar cd git/osgar python -m osgar.record –duration 10 config/matty-go.json –params app.dist=0.5 app.steering_deg=-20
… and this will go for 0.5m with steering 20 degrees to the right.