A Fully Autonomous Robot for Putting Posts for Trellising Vineyard with Centimetric Accuracy

We present an autonomous robot designed to optimize and to make secure the process of putting vineyard post during trellising. The principle is as follows: The robot goes at the location of the post in an autonomous way with a centimetric accuracy, the user provides the post, and then the robot drives the post into earth without additional user intervention. The robot is designed from a small backhoe loader. The tool of the backhoe loader has been replaced by a hydraulic hammer. All the hydraulic functions of the machine are controlled, including the hammer and the tracks. The robot is geolocalized with a differential global navigation satellite systems (GNSS for short) mono-frequency low-cost system relying on a mix of triple and double differences.