Robotics and Automation Engineering in Agriculture
A special issue of AgriEngineering (ISSN 2624-7402).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 33226
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Interests: instrumentation and sensor development; robotics; microwave sensing; machine-vision; artificial-intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
With the advent of the recent leaps in artificial intelligence; we are on the verge of a new explosion of autonomous systems and machines. By leveraging open-source efforts and keeping close working ties to research groups working in similar areas; the advancements towards the goal of obtaining low-cost fully autonomous systems suitable for use in agriculture will advance rapidly. As the world struggles to increase food production by 60% in the next decade, while at the same time losing key labor pools, it is imperative that the advances take place on an accelerated time-line. In order to exploit the new-found capabilities brought by recent advances in artificial intelligence, authoritative studies are need to published in widely distributed research journals. Further by leveraging open-source, which this journal is accelerating access to, our objectives are to lose the old paradigm by which competing research groups have to re-invent the technology developed from closed source parallel research groups and instead enable each parallel research group to help each other accelerate towards the common goal by removing these barriers by leveraging a common open-source code and system design base. With open-source efforts, and close cooperation between parallel efforts, no-one should have to re-write code that other groups have already developed or redesign mechanical or electrical systems that were developed by other groups. This sharing of resources should rapidly accelerate the pace of progress and help us to achieve the transition from manned equipment to that of low cost fully automated working farms and food production operations. Your efforts towards these goals will be invaluable and greatly needed if we are to hope to feed the world’s population over next 10-20 years.
This Special Issue is aimed at bringing together recent developments related to robotics and automation with respect to their potential or proven capabilities when used in agricultural applications. Contributions are expected to deal with, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Robotics
- Machine-Vision
- Computer-Vision
- Stereo-Vision
- Automation
- CNC
- Computer Numerical Control
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- DNN
- Deep Neural Networks
- Convolutional Networks
- Tensor-Flow
- YOLO
- Caffe
- Dark-Flow
- Dark-Net
- Radar
- Lidar
- Sensors
- Instrumentation
- Acoustics
- Spectroscopy
- Soil, vegetation, air and water sensors
- Livestock sensors
- On the go sensing
- Non-destructive sensing
- Proximal and remote sensing
- Multispectral and Hyperspectral sensors and vegetation indexes
- Fluorescence and thermal imaging
- Sensors for determination of crop health status
- Sensors for determination of animal health status
- Real-time monitoring of animal bio-responses
- Sensors for automated animal management
- Integration of sensors in agricultural machines: automation and controls
- Yield monitoring
- Monitoring of different growth stages of crops and phenotyping
- Early detection of diseases and pests
- Multi-sensor systems, sensor fusion, data-fusion
- Detection and identification of crops and weeds
- Sensors for detection of fruits and quality determination
- Sensors for positioning, navigation, and obstacle detection
- Advanced characterization techniques
- Sensor networks and IOT in agriculture and livestock sectors
- Sensors solution for precision agriculture and precision livestock farming
Dr. Mathew G. Pelletier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Robotics
- Automation
- Radar
- Lidar
- Machine-Learning
- Machine-Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Neural Networks
- Convolutional Networks
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