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Towards a Swarm Robotic System for Autonomous Cereal Harvesting [PDF]

, 2019
Swarm robotics is an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionise precision agriculture by coordinating fleets of small autonomous vehicles to minimise soil damage, increase farming resolution, lower the cost of automation, and provide solutions that are intrinsically safer and more sustainable than large monolithic systems.
Alan G. Millard, Roopika Ravikanna, Roderich Groß, David Chesmore   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

From manual to autonomous: the role of intelligent technologies in the driving and control of combine harvester

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The intelligent transformation of combine harvesters is essential to the development of smart agriculture. Focusing on the transition from manual operation to autonomous harvesting, this review examines changes in the operator’s role and the technologies
Yiheng Qian, Yu Zhang, Shuhao Fu, Kai Shan, Wenbin Zhang, Zhong Tang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An isoform of 14‐3‐3 protein regulates transbilayer lipid movement at the plasma membrane

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Loss of 14‐3‐3ζ in CHO cells confers resistance to exogenous phosphatidylserine (PS) and impairs endocytosis‐independent inward flip‐flop of fluorescent PS at the plasma membrane. RNAi‐mediated knockdown reproduces this defect, while no additive effect is seen in ATP11C‐deficient cells.
Akiko Yamaji‐Hasegawa, Akira Hattori, Masafumi Tsujimoto, Toshihide Kobayashi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomous Nutmeg Harvesting Robot

, 2019
An autonomous robot that identifies mature nutmeg fruits and harvests them from any height with a 5DOF robotic arm and a linear actuation mechanism is developed. The camera processes real time video of the tree and recognizes mature fruits and their location coordinates. This action is controlled by means of a raspberry pi 3 model.
P Abhijith, Varsha Nair, Sabitha R Shenoy, Sandhan Rai, Neethu Suman   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto, Masatomo So, Ayako Furukawa, Kenji Sugase   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

StarNet-RiceSeg: An Efficient High-Dimensional Feature Mapping Network with Spatial Attention for Real-Time Rice Lodging Detection

Agriculture
The precise, real-time delineation of rice lodging areas constitutes a fundamental prerequisite for the adaptive operation of unmanned combine harvesters.
Peng Liu, Xiaoyu Chai, Zhihong Cui, Zhihao Zhu, Jinpeng Hu, Weiping Yang, Lizhang Xu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Golgi enzymes are retrieved from the plasma membrane to the trans‐Golgi network

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Golgi enzymes are traditionally considered resident proteins retained within the Golgi apparatus. Here, we demonstrate that a subset transiently reaches the cell surface and is subsequently retrieved to the trans‐Golgi network via retrograde transport. Using a nanobody‐based toolkit, we uncover a dynamic trafficking cycle of several Golgi enzymes.
Dominik P. Buser, Tina Junne
wiley   +1 more source

Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante, Robert Sharp, Pradip K. Saha, Elizabeth S. Anaya, Elizabeth L. Lieu, Evelyn L. de Groot, Pooja Patel, Mi Jeong Heo, Aaron R. Cox, Kang Ho Kim, Sean M. Hartig   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a General-Purpose AI-Powered Robotic Platform for Strawberry Harvesting

Agriculture
The integration of emerging technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform agricultural harvesting by improving efficiency, reducing waste, lowering labor dependency, and enhancing produce quality.
Muhammad Tufail, Jamshed Iqbal, Rafiq Ahmad   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ligand‐dependent transcriptional heterogeneity in cell cycle gene expression delays G1/S entry

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
EGF and HRG induce distinct G1/S progression programs in ErbB2‐amplified BT474 breast cancer cells. Despite activating the potent ErbB2–ErbB3 heterodimer, HRG does not accelerate cell‐cycle entry. Instead, EGF promotes earlier restriction‐point passage via ERK–FOS signaling, whereas HRG activates the AKT–MYC axis, driving transcriptional heterogeneity ...
Ririn Rahmala Febri, Ayaka Nagasato‐Ichikawa, Keita Iida, Shuhei Kimura, Akira Imamoto, Mariko Okada   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source