Robots in agriculture: prospects, impacts, ethics, and policy

R Sparrow, M Howard - precision agriculture, 2021 - Springer
Agriculture is both the site of development of important new technologies and a key area of
application of technologies developed elsewhere. It is little wonder, then, that many thinkers …

Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming

RR Shamshiri, C Weltzien, IA Hameed, IJ Yule… - 2018 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Digital farming is the practice of modern technologies such as sensors, robotics, and data
analysis for shifting from tedious operations to continuously automated processes. This …

Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This review investigates the research effort, developments and innovation in agricultural
robots for field operations, and the associated concepts, principles, limitations and gaps …

Harvesting robots for high‐value crops: State‐of‐the‐art review and challenges ahead

CW Bac, EJ Van Henten, J Hemming… - Journal of field …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This review article analyzes state‐of‐the‐art and future perspectives for harvesting robots in
high‐value crops. The objectives were to characterize the crop environment relevant for …

Human–robot interaction in agriculture: A survey and current challenges

JP Vasconez, GA Kantor, FAA Cheein - Biosystems engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nowadays, robotics as machinery for planting or harvesting is solved in different
countries.•However, harvest of crops like fruits and vegetables is still manually …

Future scenarios for plant phenotyping

F Fiorani, U Schurr - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Robots in agriculture: State of art and practical experiences

JJ Roldán, J del Cerro, D Garzón-Ramos… - Service …, 2018 - books.google.com
The presence of robots in agriculture has grown significantly in recent years, overcoming
some of the challenges and complications of this field. This chapter aims to collect a …

Selective spraying of grapevines for disease control using a modular agricultural robot

R Oberti, M Marchi, P Tirelli, A Calcante, M Iriti… - Biosystems …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•A totally automatic selective spraying system for diseases in specialty crops.•A
modular agricultural robot was configured for precision-spraying applications.•Multispectral …

Field evaluation of path-planning algorithms for autonomous mobile robot in smart farms

J Pak, J Kim, Y Park, HI Son - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning is crucial for several applications, including those in industrial facilities,
network traffic, computer games, and agriculture. Enabling automated path-planning …

A review of autonomous agricultural vehicles (The experience of Hokkaido University)

A Roshanianfard, N Noguchi, H Okamoto… - Journal of Terramechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
Robotic farming will play an undeniably significant role in future sustainable agriculture.
Autonomous agricultural vehicles for arable crops and their components are reviewed …