Chapter Robots in Agriculture: State of Art and Practical Experiences
Author(s)
Jesús Roldán, Juan
Garzón-Ramos, David
del Cerro, Jaime
Barrientos, Antonio
Garzón, Mario
De León, Jorge
Language
EnglishAbstract
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 complete and recent state of the art about the application of robots in agriculture. The work addresses this topic from two perspectives. On the one hand, it involves the disciplines that lead the automation of agriculture, such as precision agriculture and greenhouse farming, and collects the proposals for automatizing tasks like planting and harvesting, environmental monitoring and crop inspection and treatment. On the other hand, it compiles and analyses the robots that are proposed to accomplish these tasks: e.g. manipulators, ground vehicles and aerial robots. Additionally, the chapter reports with more detail some practical experiences about the application of robot teams to crop inspection and treatment in outdoor agriculture, as well as to environmental monitoring in greenhouse farming.
Keywords
robotics, agriculture, greenhouse, UGV, UAV, multi‐robotDOI
10.5772/intechopen.69874Publisher
InTechOpenPublisher website
https://www.intechopen.com/Publication date and place
2018Classification
Automatic control engineering