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Development and Evaluation of a Watermelon-Harvesting Robot Prototype: Vision System and End-Effector

open access: yesAgronomy, 2022
Over the past decade, there have been increasing attempts to integrate robotic harvesting technology into agricultural scenarios to reduce growing labour costs and increase crop yields.
Jiacheng Rong   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mechatronic Description of a Laser Autoguided Vehicle for Greenhouse Operations

open access: yesSensors, 2013
This paper presents a novel approach for guiding mobile robots inside greenhouses demonstrated by promising preliminary physical experiments. It represents a comprehensive attempt to use the successful principles of AGVs (auto-guided vehicles) inside ...
Julián Sánchez-Hermosilla   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapeseed Leaf Estimation Methods at Field Scale by Using Terrestrial LiDAR Point Cloud

open access: yesAgronomy, 2022
Exploring the key technologies of agricultural robots is an inevitable trend in the development of smart agriculture. It is significant to continuously transplant and develop novel algorithms and models to update agricultural robots that use light ...
Fangzheng Hu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivable Agricultural Road Region Detection Based on Pixel-Level Segmentation with Contextual Representation Augmentation

open access: yesAgriculture, 2023
Drivable area detection is crucial for the autonomous navigation of agricultural robots. However, semi-structured agricultural roads are generally not marked with lanes and their boundaries are ambiguous, which impedes the accurate segmentation of ...
Yefeng Sun   +5 more
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Research Progress and Prospect of Multi-robot Collaborative SLAM in Complex Agricultural Scenarios

open access: yes智慧农业
[Significance]The rapid development of artificial intelligence and automation has greatly expanded the scope of agricultural automation, with applications such as precision farming using unmanned machinery, robotic grazing in outdoor environments, and ...
MA Nan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinematic-Based Multi-Objective Design Optimization of a Grapevine Pruning Robotic Manipulator

open access: yesAgriEngineering, 2022
Annual cane pruning of grape vineyards is a time-consuming and labor-intensive job, but no mechanized or automatic way has been developed to do it yet. Robotic pruning can be a perfect alternative to human labor.
Faezeh Molaei, Shirin Ghatrehsamani
doaj   +1 more source

Using Long Short-Term Memory for Building Outdoor Agricultural Machinery

open access: yesFrontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020
Today, climate change has caused a decrease in agricultural output or overall yields that are not as expected; however, with the ongoing population explosion, many undeveloped countries have transformed into emerging countries and have transformed ...
Chien-Hung Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Control for Agricultural Robots via LiDAR and Camera

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Obstacle avoidance control and navigation in unstructured agricultural environments are key to the safe operation of autonomous robots, especially for agricultural machinery, where cost and stability should be taken into account.
Chongyang Han   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Robotics

open access: yesAnnual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 2019
A key goal of contemporary agriculture is to dramatically increase production of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel products in a sustainable fashion, facing the pressure of diminishing farm labor supply. Agricultural robots can accelerate plant breeding and advance data-driven precision farming with significantly reduced labor inputs by providing task ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Moving Object Localization Using Sound-Based Positioning System with Doppler Shift Compensation

open access: yesRobotics, 2013
Sound-based positioning systems are a potential alternative low-cost navigation system. Recently, we developed such an audible sound-based positioning system, based on a spread spectrum approach.
Slamet Widodo   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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