...Robert Bogue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide details of recent developments in agricultural robots with an emphasis of those that address labour shortages and environmental issues. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction which highlights some of the challenges...

... and applications involving physical tasks in agricultural and forestry, maritime rescue, firefighting and product delivery. Finally, brief conclusions are drawn. Findings Excluding military applications, drones were initially used primarily for image acquisition. Numerous different designs have since been...

...Rob Bogue Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the growing importance of agricultural robots by providing details of recent product developments and their applications. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this first discusses a range of agricultural applications...

... be contacted at: wlhseu@163.com 21 10 2020 16 11 2020 19 01 2021 19 01 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agriculture Path following Autonomous robots Autonomous combine harvester Path tracking control...

... autonomous robotic solutions that focused on vision-based mapping. With strategic partners, the team began work on consumer applications that enabled the company to create a uniquely robust and cost-effective approach to robotics. It entered the agricultural market in 2004 with a feasibility study...

... Technical Vision System (TVS), which uses a laser scanner and dynamic triangulation, to determine the vitality of agriculture vegetation. This vision system, installed on an unmanned aerial vehicle, shall measure the reflected laser energy and thereby determine the normalized differenced vegetation index...

...Victor Bloch; Avital Bechar; Amir Degani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for characterization of the robot environment to help solve such problem as designing an optimal agricultural robot for a specific agricultural task. Design/methodology/approach Defining...

...Robert Bogue Purpose This paper aims to provide details of a number of recent and significant agricultural robot research and development activities. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction, this first provides a brief overview of agricultural robot research. It then discusses...

...Richard Bloss Purpose – This paper aims to review the dramatic entry of robotics into the field of agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – Research of efforts around the world to apply robots to agricultural needs and participation in webcasts of the latest in agricultural robotic...

...Luis Emmi; Leonel Paredes‐Madrid; Angela Ribeiro; Gonzalo Pajares; Pablo Gonzalez‐de‐Santos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose going one step further in the simulation tools related to agriculture by integrating fleets of mobile robots for the execution of precision agriculture...

...Juan D. Hernández; Jorge Barrientos; Jaime del Cerro; Antonio Barrientos; David Sanz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new low‐cost system based on a spherical robot for performing moisture monitoring in precision agriculture. Design/methodology/approach The work arose from...

...Robert Bogue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of robots to contribute to producing food for the growing global population. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction which provides an historical background to agricultural production and strategies...

...Thomas Hellström; Ola Ringdahl Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a generic software framework for development of agricultural and forestry robots. The primary goal is to provide generic high‐level functionality and to encourage distributed and structured programming, thus leading...

...Manuel A. Armada; G. Muscato; M. Prestifilippo; Nunzio Abbate; Ivan Rizzuto Purpose To construct a commercial agricultural manipulation for fruit picking and handling without human intervention. Design/methodology/approach Describes a research activity involving a totally autonomous robot...

... Agriculture Robotics Livestock The first fully automated robotic milking stall was introduced in the Netherlands in 1992. These robot systems enable “self‐service milking” by the cow, whereby the milking robot is accessible by the cow without the need for the farmer to be present. Such use of robotics...

...Glen Burgess This case study describes the application of robots to an agricultural depalletizing operation. Discusses the reasons for adopting robotics, the requirements of the application and the resulting system performance. The robot that was chosen for this depalletizing system was the Fanuc...

...John Billingsley An outline is given of a vision guidance project, completed and the product brought to market by the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, Queensland, and of carrier‐phase GPS methods at an advanced stage of experimentation. These establish an infrastructure for a small...

... important because it is important to seize opportunities of weather “windows” when they come along. Agriculture is key to the Dutch economy, and Hopper considered the work there to be among the top of the top group of five countries. The main application areas covered by research were: Silsoe have...

... Robots come out of the factories and into the fields Keywords Food,Agriculture, Robots The last 15 years has seen a massive increase in farming mechanisation, with the labour force shrinking proportionately. Whereas once, it took 20 people to run a typical 2,000 acre farm, it now...

.... The prototype was further developed and improved in collaboration with a team from Alfa Laval Agri and it is a vision‐guided robot that will be launched next year. © Company 1999 Agriculture Machine vision Robots Over the last 20 years a number of research projects have been looking at ways...