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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

Pruning is the art of cutting unwanted and unhealthy plant branches and is one of the difficult tasks in the field robotics. It becomes even more complex when the plant branches are moving. Moreover, the reproducibility of robot pruning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sunny Katyara , Fanny Ficuciello , Darwin G. Caldwell , Fei Chen , Bruno Siciliano

The growth of weeds poses a significant challenge to agricultural productivity, necessitating efficient and accurate weed detection and management strategies. The combination of multispectral imaging and drone technology has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Drishti Goel , Bhavya Kapur , Prem Prakash Vuppuluri

Organic weed control is a vital to improve crop yield with a sustainable approach. In this work, a directed energy weed control robot prototype specifically designed for organic farms is proposed. The robot uses a novel distributed array…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Deng Cao , Hongbo Zhang , Rajveer Dhillon

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

The site-specific management of weeds in grassland is often challenging because different weed control strategies have different trade-offs regarding the required resources and treatment efficiency. So, the question arises whether a wide…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-03 Lukas Petrich , Georg Lohrmann , Fabio Martin , Albert Stoll , Volker Schmidt

Agriculture is currently undergoing a robotics revolution, but robots using wheeled or treads suffer from known disadvantages: they are unable to move over rubble and steep or loose ground, and they trample continuous strips of land thereby…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sandilya Sai Garimella , Shai Revzen

Precision farming robots, which target to reduce the amount of herbicides that need to be brought out in the fields, must have the ability to identify crops and weeds in real time to trigger weeding actions. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Andres Milioto , Philipp Lottes , Cyrill Stachniss

Plants need regular and the appropriate amount of watering to thrive and survive. While agricultural robots exist that can spray water on plants and crops such as the , they are expensive and have limited mobility and/or functionality. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Justin London

Vision-based navigation systems in arable fields are an underexplored area in agricultural robot navigation. Vision systems deployed in arable fields face challenges such as fluctuating weed density, varying illumination levels, growth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Rajitha de Silva , Grzegorz Cielniak , Junfeng Gao

This paper presents a novel garbage pickup robot which operates on the grass. The robot is able to detect the garbage accurately and autonomously by using a deep neural network for garbage recognition. In addition, with the ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jinqiang Bai , Shiguo Lian , Zhaoxiang Liu , Kai Wang , Dijun Liu

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

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…

Robots have revolutionized our way of life in recent years.One of the domains that has not yet completely benefited from the robotic automation is the agricultural sector. Agricultural Robotics should complement humans in the arduous tasks…

Italian ryegrass is a grass weed commonly found in winter wheat fields that are competitive with winter wheat for moisture and nutrients. Ryegrass can cause substantial reductions in yield and grain quality if not properly controlled with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ishita Bansal , Peder Olsen , Roberto Estevão

Driven by the need to address labor shortages and meet the demands of a rapidly growing population, robotic automation has become a critical component in precision agriculture. Leaf-level hyperspectral spectroscopy is shown to be a powerful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mehrad Mortazavi , David J. Cappelleri , Reza Ehsani

Currently, weed control in a corn field is performed by a blanket application of herbicides that do not consider spatial distribution information of weeds and also uses an extensive amount of chemical herbicides. To reduce the amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ranjan Sapkota , Paulo Flores

In this paper an autonomous system to detect and combat Rumex obtusifolius leveraging autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), small autonomous sprayer robots and 5G SA connectivity is presented. Rumex obtusifolius is a plant found on…

Interest in agricultural robotics has increased considerably in recent years due to benefits such as improvement in productivity and labor reduction. However, current problems associated with unstructured environments make the development…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Ege Gursoy , Benjamin Navarro , Akansel Cosgun , Dana Kulić , Andrea Cherubini

Over the past decade, unprecedented progress in the development of neural networks influenced dozens of different industries, including weed recognition in the agro-industrial sector. The use of neural networks in agro-industrial activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ildar Rakhmatulin