AlphaGarden: Learning to Autonomously Tend a Polyculture Garden

1 code implementation • 11 Nov 2021 • Mark Presten, Yahav Avigal, Mark Theis, Satvik Sharma, Rishi Parikh, Shrey Aeron, Sandeep Mukherjee, Sebastian Oehme, Simeon Adebola, Walter Teitelbaum, Varun Kamat, Ken Goldberg

This paper presents AlphaGarden: an autonomous polyculture garden that prunes and irrigates living plants in a 1. 5m x 3. 0m physical testbed.

Automated Pruning of Polyculture Plants

no code implementations • 22 Aug 2022 • Mark Presten, Rishi Parikh, Shrey Aeron, Sandeep Mukherjee, Simeon Adebola, Satvik Sharma, Mark Theis, Walter Teitelbaum, Ken Goldberg

Using an overhead camera to collect data from a physical scale garden testbed, the autonomous system utilizes a learned Plant Phenotyping convolutional neural network and a Bounding Disk Tracking algorithm to evaluate the individual plant distribution and estimate the state of the garden each day.

Plant Phenotyping

DEFT: Diverse Ensembles for Fast Transfer in Reinforcement Learning

no code implementations • 26 Sep 2022 • Simeon Adebola, Satvik Sharma, Kaushik Shivakumar

In this work, we present Diverse Ensembles for Fast Transfer in RL (DEFT), a new ensemble-based method for reinforcement learning in highly multimodal environments and improved transfer to unseen environments.

Ensemble Learning reinforcement-learning +1