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Analysis of Existing Approaches to the Service Automation and to Interaction Control of Heterogeneous Agricultural Robots

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The chapter describes model-algorithmic support of the interaction of UAV and ground-based robotic platforms that carry out the functions of their transportation and service. The problem of increasing the operating time of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in autonomous agricultural missions is discussed. The approaches to charge or replace onboard batteries on an accompanying robotic platform are analyzed. The existing prototypes of service robotic platforms are distinguished by the complexity of the internal mechanisms, the speed of service, the algorithms for the platform and the aircraft to work together during landing and battery maintenance. The classification of existing service systems installed on robotic platforms for servicing batteries and built-in UAV containers has been compiled based on the results of the analysis.

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    Andrey Ronzhin

  2. Le Quy Don Technical University, Ha Noi, Vietnam

    Tien Ngo

  3. St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Quyen Vu

  4. St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Vinh Nguyen

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Ronzhin, A., Ngo, T., Vu, Q., Nguyen, V. (2022). Analysis of Existing Approaches to the Service Automation and to Interaction Control of Heterogeneous Agricultural Robots. In: Ground and Air Robotic Manipulation Systems in Agriculture. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 214. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86826-0_1

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