At the heart of the Agreenculture's robotics solution, the AGCbox covers multiple usages.
From map digitalization, to machine realtime guidance, this product is key as it guarantees full autonomy of outdoors machines, otherwise an operator must remain in the field.
Full autonomy is the real objective and the real value for the end user.
So, as a designer, I proposed a symbolic vision of a light floating product, pointing toward the sky and colored in white.
The reference here is the aircraft black box, closed and austere. I made it visually appealing and white, as the AGCbox reflects connectivity, openness and precision. (the opposite of an aircraft black box)
Floating is an important detail, as the product is dedicated to be embedded on other manufacturer's machines. While its design must enhance the value of the supporting machine, although it must not blend in with it.
Last but not least, Agreenculture making efficient and reliable products, the design can afford to disrupt some standard characteristics shared with competitors : no bumper, no rubber parts to absorb shocks, as there is no accident when AGCbox is in charge.
AGC Box design creates a shadow that gives the impression that the box is floating
AGC Box assembly detail with three uses : Land Survey, Reference Station and Guidance
Robotics design is a synthesis of Industrial and Interaction Design, in order to propose comprehensive solutions to users issues.
Design is essential to promote technical disrupting innovations, translate and orchestrate them in order to ensure users satisfaction.
Here I will showcase both aspects of the work I do for Agreenculture : Industrial and Interaction Design - this page is still under construction
Industrial Design
Agreenculture's core expertise is certified GNSS positioning.
The strength is to have invested in a single object that can be reconfigured to fit several uses according to businesses or users needs.
To illustrate this strategy and the intelligence behind the product based on more than 10 years of Research & Development, I wanted the box to express preciousness in contrast to the roughness of Agricultural world. I made a white "black box" because it is as precious as a black box, but instead of keeping everything secret, AGC Box is the hub of communications.
The box is slightly raised to create a shadow and a visual emphasis. This choice is also technical. While maintaining a strong contact surface to keep the mechanical relation between the box and the robot, the elevation increases air exchange surface to dissipate the heat through the aluminium.
I also wanted to express openness even if it must remain closed for obvious reasons. This is why AGC Box is pointing to the sky.
This box is really about porosity and interconnectivity. Designing the AGC Box's inside to fit all the electronics, make sure it is feasible, has only one objective, communicate with the outside world.
AGC Box assembly animation
Safencing
Thanks to the AGC Box, CEOL and other machines can precisely and in total safety locate themselves and ensure they won't go through the certified safe virtual fence. This box is the starting point of robotization.
Agreenculture's virtual geofencing is as safe as a physical fence, but requires no installation or maintenance, and doing so, does not generate any associated costs © Agreenculture
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