Teacher Version
Autonomous Tractor
Topics Covered
- Autonomous Tractor
- Challenge Overview
Instructions
The video explains that an autonomous orchard tractor can navigate an orchard without a driver or GPS. It then explains a little about the challenge that ends the Turning section.
Check Your Understanding
- Why is it important to be able to drive through an orchard?
- To perform specialized tasks on different types of crops
- GPS is required while navigating around the orchard
- To perform tasks like inspection and spraying which cannot be done as effectively through other means
- All of the above
- What is the advantage of the Autonomous Tractor over a human driver?
- Reduces the need for humans to perform the repetitive task of driving through the orchard over and over
- Reduces exposing human to hazard areas while performing inspections
- Autonomous Tractor can travel through an area where a human driver may get lost
- There is no big advantage