Advances in Automation and Controls of Agri-Food Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 1254
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agri-food engineering; energy savings; mechanical plants; heat transfer; renewable energy
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Interests: agri-food engineering; agricultural machinery; image analysis; mechanical plants; food plants
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The agri-food sector is undergoing a huge change in automation and control, increasingly bridging the technological gap compared to other sectors, such as the manufacturing industry, which are typically leading. This is due to the enormous effort that research has and is continuing to make to identify new technologies that can be applied in contexts that often appear to be complex and uncontrolled. The opposite is often true. The environments in which we operate are often unstructured and subject to significant variability both in space and time. Even the food processing industry, which operates in more controlled environments, suffers the difficulty of working with products that are never uniform in shape, color, and composition, unlike mechanical or electronic products. To this end, it is necessary to continue to focus on designing, testing, and validating new devices and models for optimized and sustainable management of the numerous processes involved in the agri-food sector. Some applications involve using technologies for site-specific crop management, machine vision systems for outdoor and indoor robots, and new management strategies for resource use and energy efficiency.
Therefore, this Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research and review studies in the abovementioned research areas.
Dr. Claudio Perone
Prof. Dr. Roberto Romaniello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- precision agriculture modeling
- automation
- wireless sensor network and IoT
- smart sensors and actuators
- strategy for resource use efficiency
- control and energy optimization
- decision support systems
- machine vision systems
- AG-robotics
- autonomous guidance
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