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In the last few years, robotic technology has been increasingly employed in agriculture to develop intelligent vehicles that can improve productivity and competitiveness. Accurate and robust environmental perception is a critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Giulio Reina , Annalisa Milella , Raphael Rouveure , Michael Nielsen , Rainer Worst , Morten R. Blas

Modern agriculture faces escalating challenges: increasing demand for food, labor shortages, and the urgent need to reduce environmental impact. Agricultural robotics has emerged as a promising response to these pressures, enabling the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Stephane Ngnepiepaye Wembe , Vincent Rousseau , Johann Laconte , Roland Lenain

Innovative ideas are continuously emerging to produce better life conditions where essential human needs are supposed to be fulfilled with perfect scenarios leading us to propose modern strategies drawing the future of smart cities. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Abdullatif Baba

Robots are increasingly being deployed in agriculture to support sustainable practices and improve productivity. They offer strong potential to enable precise, efficient, and environmentally friendly operations. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Stephane Ngnepiepaye Wembe , Vincent Rousseau , Johann Laconte , Roland Lenain

The evolution of smaller, faster processors and cheaper digital storage mechanisms across the last 4-5 decades has vastly increased the opportunity to integrate intelligent technologies in a wide range of practical environments to address a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Adrian Salazar-Gomez , Madeleine Darbyshire , Junfeng Gao , Elizabeth I Sklar , Simon Parsons

Autonomous navigation of a robot in agricultural fields is essential for every task from crop monitoring to weed management and fertilizer application. Many current approaches rely on accurate GPS, however, such technology is expensive and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Alireza Ahmadi , Michael Halstead , Chris McCool

In this paper, we address the problem of adaptive path planning for accurate semantic segmentation of terrain using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The usage of UAVs for terrain monitoring and remote sensing is rapidly gaining momentum due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Felix Stache , Jonas Westheider , Federico Magistri , Marija Popović , Cyrill Stachniss

Autonomous navigation is a pre-requisite for field robots to carry out precision agriculture tasks. Typically, a robot has to navigate through a whole crop field several times during a season for monitoring the plants, for applying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Alireza Ahmadi , Lorenzo Nardi , Nived Chebrolu , Cyrill Stachniss

Improving the efficiency of agriculture is a growing priority due to food security issues, environmental concerns, and economics. Precision agriculture and variable rate application technology could enable increases in yield while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 William Rohde , Fulvio Forni

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for safe navigation in agricultural robotics. As global environmental challenges intensify, robotics offers a powerful solution to reduce chemical usage while meeting the increasing demands for…

Modern herbicide application in agricultural settings typically relies on either large scale sprayers that dispense herbicide over crops and weeds alike or portable sprayers that require labor intensive manual operation. The former method…

The integration of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into large-scale artistic projects has emerged as a new application in robotics. This paper presents the design, deployment, and testing of a novel multi-drone system for…

Farms produce hundreds of thousands of data points on the ground daily. Farming technique which combines farming practices with the insights uncovered in these data points using AI technology is called precision farming. Precision farming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Peeyush Kumar , Andrew Nelson , Zerina Kapetanovic , Ranveer Chandra

Agricultural production using high technology is an inevitable trend in Vietnam. Especially for material crops which typically need large growing areas, wireless sensor networks has been clearly playing a significant role in increasing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nguyen Truong Son , Quach Cong Hoang , Dang Thi Huong Giang , Vu Minh Trung , Vuong Quang Huy , Mai Anh Tuan

Robotic pollinators not only can aid farmers by providing more cost effective and stable methods for pollinating plants but also benefit crop production in environments not suitable for bees such as greenhouses, growth chambers, and in…

The growing scale of modern farms has increased the need for efficient and adaptive multi-agent coverage strategies for pest, weed, and disease management. Traditional methods such as manual inspection and blanket pesticide spraying often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Sungjun Seo , Kooktae Lee

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become popular for use in plant phenotyping of field based crops, such as maize and sorghum, due to their ability to acquire high resolution data over field trials. Field experiments, which may comprise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Changye Yang , Sriram Baireddy , Enyu Cai , Melba Crawford , Edward J. Delp

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with high-resolution sensors enable extensive data collection from previously inaccessible areas at a remarkable spatio-temporal scale, promising to revolutionize fields such as precision agriculture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Harnaik Dhami

Degraded rangelands undergo continual shifts in the appearance and distribution of plant life. The nature of these changes however is subtle: between seasons seedlings sprout up and some flourish while others perish, meanwhile, over…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kristen Such , Harel Biggie , Christoffer Heckman

As UAV technology improves, more uses have been found for these versatile autonomous vehicles, from surveillance to aerial photography, to package delivery, and each of these applications poses unique challenges. This paper implements a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Adarsh Salagame , Sushant Govindraj , S. N. Omkar