Agricultural Robotics for Field Operations
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Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
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Fraunhofer IPA, Nobelstr 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Wageningen Plant Research, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 644, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Sensors 2020, 20(9), 2672; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092672
Received: 30 March 2020
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Revised: 24 April 2020
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Accepted: 5 May 2020
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Published: 7 May 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors in Agriculture)
Modern agriculture is related to a revolution that occurred in a large group of technologies (e.g., informatics, sensors, navigation) within the last decades. In crop production systems, there are field operations that are quite labour-intensive either due to their complexity or because of the fact that they are connected to sensitive plants/edible product interaction, or because of the repetitiveness they require throughout a crop production cycle. These are the key factors for the development of agricultural robots. In this paper, a systematic review of the literature has been conducted on research and commercial agricultural robotics used in crop field operations. This study underlined that the most explored robotic systems were related to harvesting and weeding, while the less studied were the disease detection and seeding robots. The optimization and further development of agricultural robotics are vital, and should be evolved by producing faster processing algorithms, better communication between the robotic platforms and the implements, and advanced sensing systems.
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Keywords:
crops; autonomous vehicles; field operations; perception; execution
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Fountas, S.; Mylonas, N.; Malounas, I.; Rodias, E.; Hellmann Santos, C.; Pekkeriet, E. Agricultural Robotics for Field Operations. Sensors 2020, 20, 2672. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092672
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Fountas S, Mylonas N, Malounas I, Rodias E, Hellmann Santos C, Pekkeriet E. Agricultural Robotics for Field Operations. Sensors. 2020; 20(9):2672. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092672
Chicago/Turabian StyleFountas, Spyros, Nikos Mylonas, Ioannis Malounas, Efthymios Rodias, Christoph Hellmann Santos, and Erik Pekkeriet. 2020. "Agricultural Robotics for Field Operations" Sensors 20, no. 9: 2672. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092672
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