Row detection BASED navigation and guidance for agricultural robots and autonomous vehicles in row-crop fields: Methods and applications

J Shi, Y Bai, Z Diao, J Zhou, X Yao, B Zhang - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Crop row detection is one of the foundational and pivotal technologies of agricultural robots
and autonomous vehicles for navigation, guidance, path planning, and automated farming in …

Design and development of orchard autonomous navigation spray system

S Wang, J Song, P Qi, C Yuan, H Wu, L Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Driven by the demand for efficient plant protection in orchards, the autonomous navigation
system for orchards is hereby designed and developed in this study. According to the three …

Position-agnostic autonomous navigation in vineyards with deep reinforcement learning

M Martini, S Cerrato, F Salvetti… - 2022 IEEE 18th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precision agriculture is rapidly attracting research to efficiently introduce automation and
robotics solutions to support agricultural activities. Robotic navigation in vineyards and …

Autonomous navigation method of jujube catch-and-shake harvesting robot based on convolutional neural networks

Z Zheng, Y Hu, X Li, Y Huang - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Autonomous navigation of agricultural devices plays an indispensable step for the
realization of various field intelligent operation tasks. However, the accurate extraction of …

[HTML][HTML] AI-assisted vision for agricultural robots

S Fountas, I Malounas, L Athanasakos, I Avgoustakis… - AgriEngineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Robotics has been increasingly relevant over the years. The ever-increasing demand for
productivity, the reduction of tedious labor, and safety for the operator and the environment …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of abnormal hydroponic lettuce leaves based on image processing and machine learning

R Yang, Z Wu, W Fang, H Zhang, W Wang, L Fu… - Information Processing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate and fast detection of abnormal hydroponic lettuce leaves is primary technology for
robotic sorting. Yellow and rotten leaves are main types of abnormal leaves in hydroponic …

[HTML][HTML] Fuzzy logic controller for automating electrical conductivity and pH in hydroponic cultivation

CH Chen, SY Jeng, CJ Lin - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study proposes a fuzzy logic controller for adjusting the electrical conductivity (EC) and
pH of the nutrient solution in a hydroponic system. The proposed control system detects the …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of the research of the “Eye–Brain–Hand” harvesting system in smart agriculture

W Ji, X Huang, S Wang, X He - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Smart agricultural harvesting robots' vision recognition, control decision, and mechanical
hand modules all resemble the human eye, brain, and hand, respectively. To enable …

[HTML][HTML] Navigation algorithm based on semantic segmentation in wheat fields using an RGB-D camera

Y Song, F Xu, Q Yao, J Liu, S Yang - Information Processing in Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Determining the navigation line is critical for the automatic navigation of agricultural robots in
the farmland. In this research, considering a wheat field as the typical scenario, a novel …