Abstract: An autonomous agricultural robot including: a control unit and treatment tools. The autonomous agricultural robot being characterised in that it includes a protective device. This protective device is configured to: measure characteristic quantities of so-called upstream crops, these crops being located upstream of the treatment tools; measure characteristic quantities of so-called downstream crops, these crops being located downstream of the treatment tools. The control unit being configured to: receive the measurements of the characteristic quantities of the upstream and downstream crops; perform a comparison of the measurements of the characteristic quantities of the same upstream and downstream crops; transmit a command for protecting the crop parcel to the autonomous agricultural robot when the comparison exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: An autonomous agricultural robot, referred to as robot, including: a straddle chassis defining an aisle through which a row of crops can pass, propulsion means for moving the robot in a direction of forward travel, a control unit for controlling the robot and an obstacle-characterization device. This device including: obstacle detection means which are configured to detect an obstacle lying in the path of the autonomous agricultural robot, a processing unit configured so that when an obstacle is detected by the obstacle-detection means, the unit logs the data collected by the obstacle-detection means, and/or processes the data collected by the obstacle-detection means and determines at least one characteristic of the detected obstacle.

Abstract: An autonomous agricultural robot, referred to as robot, including: a straddle chassis defining an aisle through which a row of crops can pass, propulsion means for moving the robot in a direction of forward travel, a control unit for controlling the robot and an obstacle-characterization device. This device including: obstacle detection means which are configured to detect an obstacle lying in the path of the autonomous agricultural robot, a processing unit configured so that when an obstacle is detected by the obstacle-detection means, the unit logs the data collected by the obstacle-detection means, and/or processes the data collected by the obstacle-detection means and determines at least one characteristic of the detected obstacle.