Current status and future trends in agricultural robotics

This paper analyzes some of the innovations in agricultural robotics, specifically for weed control, harvesting and monitoring, taking into account the challenges of introducing robotics in this sector, such as fruit detection, orchard navigation, task planning algorithms, or sensors optimization. O...

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Autor principal: Veiros, André (author)
Outros Autores: Mesquita, Ricardo (author), Gaspar, Pedro Dinis (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:por
Publicado em: 2020
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/10359
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:ubibliorum.ubi.pt:10400.6/10359
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Resumo:This paper analyzes some of the innovations in agricultural robotics, specifically for weed control, harvesting and monitoring, taking into account the challenges of introducing robotics in this sector, such as fruit detection, orchard navigation, task planning algorithms, or sensors optimization. One of the trends in agriculture 4.0 is the introduction of swarm robotics, allowing collaboration between robots. Another trend is in aerial imagery acquisition for ground analysis as well as environmental reconstruction, complemented by field-mounted sensors. Although robots are becoming quite important in the evolution of agriculture, it is still unlikely that all tasks will be automated in the near future due to the complexity arised by the overall variability of cultures.