Abstract
Automation in agriculture is increasingly essential for improving efficiency in the production of crops and the quality of their products. Advances in technology have made great contributions in this area, but there is still much more to do. This entry reviews the results of recent research on automation in agriculture, with a special interest in ground-based mobile robotic platforms and their support systems. Various fruit harvesting tasks using robotic systems in both outdoors and in greenhouses are described. Weed control efforts are described using controlled mechanical implements and selective fumigation, in addition to the pruning of vines. Finally, a fleet of heterogeneous and flexible robots is described, which is suitable for making important contributions to agriculture and which, at the same time, are part of Smart Agriculture Technologies.
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The authors of this entry are grateful to the FlexiGroBots projects funded by the European Union under the H2020 Programme with Grant Agreement Id. 101017111; grant PDC2021-121537-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and grant PID2020-113229RB-C43 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR.” Hector Montes thanks SENACYT for the support it provides to its members.
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Montes, H., Ribeiro, A. (2023). Automation in Agriculture. In: Zhang, Q. (eds) Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89123-7_226-1
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