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System design: localization for a robot in orchard / vineyard rows

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Asked in interviews

Design a localization system for a robot driving through structured agricultural rows — an orchard, vineyard, or bedded crop rows. What sensors and methods would you use, and what makes this environment hard?

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A robot drives between dense, near-identical crop rows whose canopy blocks and reflects GPS — it must stay localized from its other sensors.

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