AgriGen: Large-Scale Scene Generation Framework for Photorealistic Agricultural Robotics Simulation

Georgia Tech-CNRS IRL2958

🏆 Best Applied Contribution Award at ICRA 2026 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics

Oral talk at ICRA 2026 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics

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AgriGen is a large-scale agricultural robotics simulator.

Abstract

Agricultural robotics is advancing rapidly, yet progress remains constrained by limited field access, lack of control over field conditions, geographic variability, and seasonal crop cycles. These factors make it difficult and costly to acquire diverse agricultural datasets, resulting in limited evaluation and reduced system robustness. While other robotics domains have scaled learning and evaluation through high-fidelity simulation, agricultural robotics still lacks comparably capable tools. In this paper, we present a ROS-integrated framework, built on Isaac Sim, for large-scale procedural generation of agricultural environments. The framework supports photorealistic rendering, physics simulation, and domain randomization at scales relevant to robotics research, with built-in support for row crops, orchards, and vineyards and straightforward extensibility to additional crop categories.

AgriGen can generate fields with a variety of crop types

AgriGen can generate fields with a variety of row layouts

Sugar Beet only used for visualization, these layouts are applicable to any crop type

Agrigen can randomize lighting

BibTeX

@article{bajpai2026agrigen,
  author    = {Utkarsh Bajpai, Serge Tleiji, Cédric Pradalier, and Stéphanie Aravecchia},
  title     = {AgriGen: Large-Scale Scene Generation Framework for Photorealistic Agricultural Robotics Simulation},
  misc      = {ICRA 2026 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics},
  url       = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=VWDd4ueN2T},
  year      = {2026},
}

Acknowledgements

We thank Luis F. W. Batista and Raphaël Uccelli for their valuable feedback and support throughout this project.

This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions AIGreenBots Doctoral Network, under grant agreement ID 101169330. This work has also been partially supported by the French National Research Agency (PEPR Agroécologie et Numérique - PC NINSAR) under grant ANR-22-PEAE-0007.

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