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Automation and Robots in Agriculture

A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural and Field Robotics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 10973

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Shangpeng Sun

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Department of Bioresource Engineering at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
Interests: digital agriculture; plant phenotyping; machine/deep learning; remote sensing; image/point cloud processing
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Dr. Yu Jiang

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Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Interests: agricultural robotics; multimodal sensing and analytics; artificial intelligence in agriculture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

Climate change presents unprecedented challenges to grow agricultural crops in many parts of the world along with the ever-increasing demands in food and nutrients from agrifood systems. Therefore, it is urgent to design intelligent and innovative agricultural systems to improve the efficiency of crop production and control environmental impacts caused by, e.g, carbon footprints. Automation and robotics play an essential role in breeding new crop cultivars with the desired performance and optimizing farm management practices. Recently, it has gained increasing attention, and much effort has been invested in developing both hardware platforms and software methodologies for agricultural applications, such as automatic sowing, weeding, cutting, spraying, monitoring, harvesting, sorting, and packaging. There is great room for further growth and the adoption of automatic systems in agricultural production in the future. The objective of this Special Issue is to provide an opportunity to present and promote the most recent research and development in automation and robotics related to agricultural applications. 

Dr. Shangpeng Sun
Dr. Yu Jiang
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Robotics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • automation
  • field robotics
  • digital agriculture
  • robot modeling and simulation
  • path planning
  • autonomous navigation
  • robot kinematics and control

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Towards Safe Robotic Agricultural Applications: Safe Navigation System Design for a Robotic Grass-Mowing Application through the Risk Management Method
by José Carlos Mayoral Baños, Pål Johan From and Grzegorz Cielniak
Robotics 2023, 12(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics12030063 - 23 Apr 2023
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Safe navigation is a key objective for autonomous applications, particularly those involving mobile tasks, to avoid dangerous situations and prevent harm to humans. However, the integration of a risk management process is not yet mandatory in robotics development. Ensuring safety using mobile robots [...] Read more.
Safe navigation is a key objective for autonomous applications, particularly those involving mobile tasks, to avoid dangerous situations and prevent harm to humans. However, the integration of a risk management process is not yet mandatory in robotics development. Ensuring safety using mobile robots is critical for many real-world applications, especially those in which contact with the robot could result in fatal consequences, such as agricultural environments where a mobile device with an industrial cutter is used for grass-mowing. In this paper, we propose an explicit integration of a risk management process into the design of the software for an autonomous grass mower, with the aim of enhancing safety. Our approach is tested and validated in simulated scenarios that assess the effectiveness of different custom safety functionalities in terms of collision prevention, execution time, and the number of required human interventions. Full article
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Robotic Complex for Harvesting Apple Crops
by Oleg Krakhmalev, Sergey Gataullin, Eldar Boltachev, Sergey Korchagin, Ivan Blagoveshchensky and Kang Liang
Robotics 2022, 11(4), 77; https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11040077 - 24 Jul 2022
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The article deals with the concept of building an automated system for the harvesting of apple crops. This system is a robotic complex mounted on a tractor cart, including an industrial robot and a packaging system with a container for fruit collection. The [...] Read more.
The article deals with the concept of building an automated system for the harvesting of apple crops. This system is a robotic complex mounted on a tractor cart, including an industrial robot and a packaging system with a container for fruit collection. The robot is equipped with a vacuum gripper and a vision system. A generator for power supply, a vacuum pump for the gripper and an equipment control system are also installed on the cart. The developed automated system will have a high degree of reliability that meets the requirements of operation in the field. Full article
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