LYCO: TOMI (Lightweight Yield and Crop Optimizer: Tomato Interface)

A mobile robot that can navigate crop rows in a greenhouse by pre-programmed path, remote control, or both. The robot will agitate the plants as it rolls by and faciliate pollination. While it rolls and agitate, smart cameras mounted around the robot will scan pest survey stickers (i.e. orange fly paper) and identify with high confidence the species of pest (flies, etc.) and send some sort of red flag to a UI or database if a predefined pest species is detected. The pathing or remote control of the robot should be app-based and compatible on a mobile device like a smart phone. If posiible, smart cameras that can do the same pest inspection but in realtime on the plants would be desirable.