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An Effective Multi-Cue Positioning System for Agricultural Robotics [PDF]
, 2018 The self-localization capability is a crucial component for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) in farming applications. Approaches based solely on visual cues or on low-cost GPS are easily prone to fail in such scenarios.
Grisetti, Giorgio +4 more
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Technology and restructuring the social field of dairy farming : hybrid capitals, ‘stockmanship’ and automatic milking systems [PDF]
, 2015 This paper draws on research exploring robotic and information technologies in livestock agriculture. Using Automatic Milking Systems (AMS) as an example we use the work of Bourdieu to illustrate how technology can be seen as restructuring the practices ...
Artmann +47 more
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Flexible system of multiple RGB-D sensors for measuring and classifying fruits in agri-food Industry [PDF]
, 2017 The productivity of the agri-food sector experiences continuous and growing challenges that make the use of innovative technologies to maintain and even improve their competitiveness a priority.
Auat Cheein, Fernando A. +2 more
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Polynomial-based smooth trajectory planning for fruit-picking robot manipulator
Information Processing in Agriculture, 2022 Fruit-picking robot is an important form of intelligent agricultural machinery and has great impact in smart agriculture. Motion planning for its multi-Degree of Freedoms (DOFs) manipulator is significant to picking efficiency and fruit quality. However,
He Wang, Qing Zhao, Han Li, Ran Zhao
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Annual 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 ...
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Structural Optimization of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle as Part of a Robotic Grazing System Design
MachinesUnmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have gained increased attention in different fields of application; therefore, their optimization requires special attention.
Nikola Korunović +3 more
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Towards an Open Software Platform for Field Robots in Precision Agriculture
Robotics, 2014 Robotics in precision agriculture has the potential to improve competitiveness and increase sustainability compared to current crop production methods and has become an increasingly active area of research.
Kjeld Jensen +5 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Incorporating hand gesture recognition in human–robot interaction has the potential to provide a natural way of communication, thus contributing to a more fluid collaboration toward optimizing the efficiency of the application at hand and overcoming ...
Vasileios Moysiadis +7 more
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, 2018 Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates over £108bn p.a., with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry and exports £20bn of UK manufactured goods. However, the global food chain is under pressure from population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration, population ...
Duckett, Tom +3 more
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Heuristics and Rescheduling in Prioritised Multi-Robot Path Planning: A Literature Review
Machines, 2023 The benefits of multi-robot systems are substantial, bringing gains in efficiency, quality, and cost, and they are useful in a wide range of environments from warehouse automation, to agriculture and even extend in part to entertainment.
James R. Heselden, Gautham P. Das
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