Feldfreund DevKit ROS (Sowbot) Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for the Feldfreund DevKit ROS (Sowbot) platform.

Navigation & Architecture

• Sowbot (ROS 2 stack)
  • Sowbot Roadmap
• Rewrite-from-Scratch Cost Estimate
  • Foundational infra
  • Packages pulled in & developed in house
  • Total
• ⚠️ CRITICAL SAFETY WARNING:
  • Health Warning
  • Quick Start
  • Management & Tools
  • Sketch of MVP 2026 architecture
  • Sketch of possible eventual ~2027 architecture
  • Licenses & papers
• Sowbot / feldfreund_devkit_ros — Dependency Licence Audit
  • Feldfreund DevKit ROS
  • Components
  • Docker Setup
  • Connect to UI
  • Launch Files
  • AXIS Camera Authentication
  • Quickstart guide
  • Future features
• Local Lizard Firmware Setup
  • Checkout
  • Build and flash

API Reference

• C++ API Reference
• Python API Reference
  • devkit_driver
  • devkit_f2c_planner
  • devkit_mavlink_bridge
  • devkit_ui

Research & Notes

• Gazebo Simulation (Headless VNC)
• Vision System Roadmap — Sowbot / Avaota A1
  • crop_row_node · YOLOX-Nano Weed Detection · ROS 2
  • 1. Current State Assessment
  • 2. Immediate — Harden What Exists
  • 3. Short-Term — NPU Weed Detection Deployment
  • 4. Medium-Term — Replace ExG with NPU Segmentation
  • 5. Long-Term — Semantic Field Navigation
  • Dependency and Risk Register
  • Milestone Summary
• Coverage Planner Feature Comparison
  • slic3r_coverage_planner (current OpenMower) vs Fields2Cover
  • Feature-by-feature breakdown
  • Summary matrix
  • Bottom line
• Paper Proposal: Terramechanics-Informed State Estimation for Tracked Autonomous Rovers
  • Authors & Affiliations
  • Abstract
  • 1. Introduction and Motivation
  • 2. System Architecture
  • 3. Experimental Validation in Gazebo
  • 4. Bibliography and Prior Work

Indices and Tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page