Robotics and Automation for Agriculture in 21st Century

Continuing progress in agricultural mechanization and automation technology in recent decades has led agriculture to an era of robotic farming. Agricultural robots, in general, can be defined as a line of intelligent machines that exhibits certain behaviors similar to human operators, such as the capacity of perception, reasoning and manipulation in agricultural settings to perform predetermined operations and tasks with or without human supervision. Such robotic technologies have a potential to further reduce the use of labor and increase the precision and efficiency of production inputs thus contributing to increased agricultural productively and long-term sustainability of the industry. This book is intended to cover state of the art information on safe, efficient, and economical agricultural production, and to advance the state-of-the-art in sensing, mobility, manipulation, and management technologies applied to the production of grain, fruit, vegetable, and other agricultural products. 

Print ISBN: 9781682517659 | $155 | 2021 | Hardcover

Subject: Agriculture and Plant Science

Editor: Domenico Pucihar