🌱 Tracky — Autonomous AI Farming Rover

🥇 1st Place @ Hack TUES & TUES Fest
Built by Backprop & Pray

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🚜 What is Tracky?

Tracky is a fully autonomous AI-powered rover that navigates farmland, detects plant diseases, and maps problem areas — helping farmers save resources, reduce waste, and increase yield.

It combines:

• 🤖 Reinforcement Learning navigation
• 👁️ Computer Vision (anomaly detection)
• 🧠 Knowledge Graph + RAG system
• 📱 Mobile app with real-time insights

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🌍 The Problem

• 🌱 ~1 billion tons of crops are lost globally due to preventable plant diseases

• 🚜 Existing solutions are:

  • Expensive
  • Not fully autonomous
  • Hard to scale for small farms

• 👨‍🌾 75–85% of farms worldwide are small-scale

  • Limited access to advanced technology
  • High cost of machinery
  • Inefficient use of pesticides

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💡 Our Solution

Tracky enables:

• 🔍 Early disease detection
• 🎯 Targeted treatment (decimeter precision)
• 💰 Lower operational costs
• 🌿 Reduced chemical waste

It’s designed to be:

• Affordable (prototype < €50 excluding compute)
• Compact & terrain-adaptive
• Fully autonomous

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🧠 System Overview

🔩 Embedded System

• Raspberry Pi-based control unit
• Distance sensors for navigation
• GPS module for precise mapping
• High-resolution camera for plant monitoring
• Custom 3D-printed chassis (assembled in 1 day)

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🤖 AI Navigation (Reinforcement Learning)

• Custom RL agent controls the rover
• Learns terrain dynamically
• Fully autonomous movement between crop rows

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👁️ Vision System (Anomaly Detection)

• Learns farm-specific “healthy baseline”
• Detects deviations → potential diseases
• Continuously improves with new data

Output:

• 📍 GPS-tagged anomaly
• 📊 Confidence + classification

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🧠 Knowledge System (RAG + Graph)

• Connects:

  • Plant conditions
  • Historical cases
  • Treatments

• Enables:

  • Smart recommendations
  • Continuous learning across farms

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📱 Mobile App

• Live map of detected issues
• Field analytics
• Feedback loop → improves models

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🔄 Self-Improving System

All components work together:

• RL agent improves navigation
• Vision model improves detection
• Knowledge system improves recommendations

➡️ With every farm, every user, every day — Tracky gets better

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💼 Business Model

Tracky is not just a robot.

It’s a data + intelligence platform:

• 💸 Low-cost rover (easy adoption)
• 📊 Subscription for:
  • Monitoring
  • Analytics
  • Disease prediction
• 🌍 Data platform for researchers & bio labs

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👨‍🌾 Built by Backprop & Pray

We are a team of students from TUES, building real-world AI systems from scratch.