Facility Agriculture Robots and Autonomous Unmanned Management for Crops—2nd Edition
This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Facility agriculture refers to agricultural production activities carried out at artificial facilities to improve crop yield and quality and achieve year-round production. The management of facility crops should prioritize efficiency and precision, continuously improving yield and quality through intelligent technical means. As a global research hotspot, facility agriculture robots have played a very important role in this field, and the future will see the development of more interesting and effective facility-based crop production techniques.
The application of facility agriculture robots requires, as a basis, research into agronomic mechanisms such as fruit mechanical characteristics to avoid mechanical damage and accurate image recognition to reduce the number of vegetable flowers. Research into these basic agronomic theories underpins the use of robots for efficient production. In the future, the ultimate goal is to build an unmanned, autonomous agricultural food production system to provide humans with healthier food. We hope that more scholars will publish high-quality research results to promote development in this field.
Related Special Issue: Facility Agriculture Robots and Autonomous Unmanned Management for Crops
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/17G80HB18Z
Dr. Wei Ma
Guest Editor
Dr. Zhiwei Tian
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- autonomous control robot
- intelligent agriculture
- laser intelligent fertilization
- agricultural sensor
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Published Papers
Agronomy - ISSN 2073-4395