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Mobile robots are increasingly utilized in agriculture to automate labor-intensive tasks such as weeding, sowing, harvesting and soil analysis. Recently, agricultural robots have been developed to detect and remove weeds using mechanical…

Automatic weeding technologies have attained a lot of attention lately, because of the harms and challenges weeds are causing for livestock farming, in addition to that weeds reduce yields. We are targeting automatic and mechanical Rumex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jarkko Kotaniemi , Niko Känsäkoski , Tapio Heikkilä

Agriculture has always remained an integral part of the world. As the human population keeps on rising, the demand for food also increases, and so is the dependency on the agriculture industry. But in today's scenario, because of low yield,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Dhruv Patel , Meet Gandhi , Shankaranarayanan H. , Anand D. Darji

The usage of drones and rovers helps to overcome the limitations of traditional agriculture which has been predominantly human-intensive, for carrying out tasks such as removal of weeds and spraying of fertilizers and pesticides. Drones and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-10 J Krishna Kant , Mahankali Sripaad , Anand Bharadwaj , Rajashekhar V S , Suresh Sundaram

With the increase in world population, food resources have to be modified to be more productive, resistive, and reliable. Wheat is one of the most important food resources in the world, mainly because of the variety of wheat-based products.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Behzad Safarijalal , Yousef Alborzi , Esmaeil Najafi

The advancements in precision agriculture are vital to support the increasing demand for global food supply. Precision spot spraying is a major step towards reducing chemical usage for pest and weed control in agriculture. A novel spot…

The application of autonomous robots in agriculture is gaining increasing popularity thanks to the high impact it may have on food security, sustainability, resource use efficiency, reduction of chemical treatments, and the optimization of…

Applying agrochemicals is the default procedure for conventional weed control in crop production, but has negative impacts on the environment. Robots have the potential to treat every plant in the field individually and thus can reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Philipp Lottes , Jens Behley , Nived Chebrolu , Andres Milioto , Cyrill Stachniss

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…

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

In this article, we focus on the critical tasks of plant protection in arable farms, addressing a modern challenge in agriculture: integrating ecological considerations into the operational strategy of precision weeding robots like \bbot.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Alireza Ahmadi , Michael Halstead , Claus Smitt , Chris McCool

This project aims to develop and demonstrate a ground robot with intelligence capable of conducting semi-autonomous farm operations for different low-heights vegetable crops referred as Agriculture Application Robot(AAR). AAR is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Vinay Ummadi , Aravind Gundlapalle , Althaf Shaik , Shaik Mohammad Rafi B

The agriculture sector requires a lot of labor and resources. Hence, farmers are constantly being pressed for technology and automation to be cost-effective. In this context, autonomous robots can play a very important role in carrying out…

The land used for grazing cattle takes up about one-third of the land in the United States. These areas can be highly rugged. Yet, they need to be maintained to prevent weeds from taking over the nutritious grassland. This can be a daunting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Parikshit Maini , Burak M. Gonultas , Volkan Isler

This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products and results, as well as their enabling technologies. The majority…

This study presents a methodology to safely manipulate branches to aid various agricultural tasks. Humans in a real agricultural environment often manipulate branches to perform agricultural tasks effectively, but current agricultural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Madhav Rijal , Rashik Shrestha , Trevor Smith , Yu Gu

Precise robotic weed control plays an essential role in precision agriculture. It can help significantly reduce the environmental impact of herbicides while reducing weed management costs for farmers. In this paper, we demonstrate that a…

Weed scouting is an important part of modern integrated weed management but can be time consuming and sparse when performed manually. Automated weed scouting and weed destruction has typically been performed using classification systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-28 David Hall , Feras Dayoub , Jason Kulk , Chris McCool

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…

Automating tasks in outdoor agricultural fields poses significant challenges due to environmental variability, unstructured terrain, and diverse crop characteristics. We present a robotic system for autonomous pepper harvesting designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Chung Hee Kim , Abhisesh Silwal , George Kantor
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