Agriculture automation

Y Edan, G Adamides, R Oberti - Springer handbook of automation, 2023 - Springer
Introduction of automation into agriculture has lowered production costs, reduced the
drudgery of tedious manual labor, increased the level of accuracy of mechanized …

Grape clusters and foliage detection algorithms for autonomous selective vineyard sprayer

R Berenstein, OB Shahar, A Shapiro, Y Edan - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2010 - Springer
While much of modern agriculture is based on mass mechanized production, advances in
sensing and manipulation technologies may facilitate precision autonomous operations that …

[HTML][HTML] Local motion planner for autonomous navigation in vineyards with a RGB-D camera-based algorithm and deep learning synergy

D Aghi, V Mazzia, M Chiaberge - Machines, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the advent of agriculture 3.0 and 4.0, in view of efficient and sustainable use of
resources, researchers are increasingly focusing on the development of innovative smart …

Virtual manipulator-based binocular stereo vision positioning system and errors modelling

X Zou, H Zou, J Lu - Machine Vision and Applications, 2012 - Springer
There is a bottleneck of mobile robots positioning technologies for uncertain goals in
complex field environment. Owing to the disturbance of the environment, the objects are …

A robust algorithm based on color features for grape cluster segmentation

N Behroozi-Khazaei, MR Maleki - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2017 - Elsevier
Image processing has been widely used for automation purposes in modern agriculture. The
algorithm development for the image segmentation is the most controversial and …

Human‐robot collaborative site‐specific sprayer

R Berenstein, Y Edan - Journal of Field Robotics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Spraying pesticides is a key element of agriculture worldwide, since 30% to 35% of crop
losses can be prevented when harmful insects and diseases are eliminated by applying …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a line following autonomous spraying vehicle with Machine vision-based leaf density estimation for cherry tomato greenhouses

NTA Nguyen, CC Pham, WC Lin - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional manual spraying systems and even modern automated ones often neglect the
critical factors of plant growth stage and coverage density during spraying for plants, which …

Robotics for crop pollination: recent advances and future direction

R Sapkota, MD Whiting, D Ahmed, M Karkee - Authorea Preprints, 2024 - techrxiv.org
There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of
climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review …

Robotic pollination-targeting kiwifruit flowers for commercial application

J Barnett, M Seabright, HAM Williams, M Nejati… - 2017 - researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
This paper contains the initial evaluation of a novel platform mounted robotic pollination
system. Advancement in artificial pollination is an important step forward in agricultural …

Segmentation and motion parameter estimation for robotic Medjoul-date thinning

T Shoshan, A Bechar, Y Cohen, A Sadowsky… - Precision …, 2022 - Springer
Laborious fruit thinning is required for attaining high-quality Medjoul dates. Thinning
automation can significantly reduce labor and improve efficiency. An image processing …