Blockchain quickly became an important technology in many applications of precision
agriculture discipline. The need to develop smart P2P systems capable of verifying …

Agricultural multirobot systems (MRSs) are expected to be essential in future agriculture.
Therefore, MRSs comprising an aerial robot, a ground robot, and a manipulator are being …

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 …

This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

We study two new informative path planning problems that are motivated by the use of aerial
and ground robots in precision agriculture. The first problem, termed sampling traveling …

Estimations of world population growth urgently require improving the efficiency of
agricultural processes, as well as improving safety for people and environmental …

Highlights•Concepts and aspects of optimal design for human-robot collaborative
systems.•Methods for safe physical interactions between human and robots in …

Technological developments through the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) jointly with
the global COVID-19 pandemic have brought about a change in life and work of almost all …

Computer vision provides local environmental information for robotic navigation in crop
fields. It is particularly useful for robots operating under canopies of tall plants such as corns …

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 …