Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops: Year 1 results and lessons learned

Autor: James Teza, George Kantor, James S. Owen, Larry A. Hull, Harvey Koselka, Wenfan Shi, Benjamin Grocholsky, J. Cannons, German A. Holguin, Guiqin Li, Sanjiv Singh, Johnny Park, Vincent P. Jones, Bradley Hamner, Marcel Bergerman
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Intelligent Service Robotics. 3:245-262
ISSN: 1861-2784
1861-2776
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-010-0074-3
Popis: Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops is a project focused on the needs of the specialty crops sector, with a focus on apples and nursery trees. The project's main thrusts are the integration of robotics technology and plant science; understanding and overcoming socio-economic barriers to technology adoption; and making the results available to growers and stakeholders through a nationwide outreach program. In this article, we present the results obtained and lessons learned in the first year of the project with a reconfigurable mobility infrastructure for autonomous farm driving. We then present sensor systems developed to enable three real-world agricultural applications--insect monitoring, crop load scouting, and caliper measurement--and discuss how they can be deployed autonomously to yield increased production efficiency and reduced labor costs.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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