DocumentCode :
16011
Title :
Agricultural Robotics: Unmanned Robotic Service Units in Agricultural Tasks
Author :
Auat Cheein, Fernando Alfredo ; Carelli, Ricardo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Tec. Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
Volume :
7
Issue :
3
fYear :
2013
fDate :
Sept. 2013
Firstpage :
48
Lastpage :
58
Abstract :
The application of agricultural machinery in precision agriculture has experienced an increase in investment and research due to the use of robotics applications in the machinery design and task executions. Precision autonomous farming is the operation, guidance, and control of autonomous machines to carry out agricultural tasks. It motivates agricultural robotics. It is expected that, in the near future, autonomous vehicles will be at the heart of all precision agriculture applications [1]. The goal of agricultural robotics is more than just the application of robotics technologies to agriculture. Currently, most of the automatic agricultural vehicles used for weed detection, agrochemical dispersal, terrain leveling, irrigation, etc. are manned. An autonomous performance of such vehicles will allow for the continuous supervision of the field, since information regarding the environment can be autonomously acquired, and the vehicle can then perform its task accordingly.
Keywords :
SLAM (robots); agricultural machinery; irrigation; mobile robots; path planning; precision engineering; remotely operated vehicles; service robots; SLAM; agricultural machinery; agricultural robotics; agricultural task execution; agrochemical dispersal; automatic agricultural vehicles; autonomous machine control; autonomous machine guidance; autonomous machine operation; continuous field supervision; irrigation; machinery design; precision agriculture; precision autonomous farming; robotics technologies; terrain leveling; unmanned robotic service units; weed detection; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Investments; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Research and development; Robots; Service robots;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Industrial Electronics Magazine, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1932-4529
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MIE.2013.2252957
Filename :
6603408
Link To Document :
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