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

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

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 tec...

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Published in:Intelligent service robotics Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 245 - 262
Main Authors: Singh, Sanjiv, Bergerman, Marcel, Cannons, Jillian, Grocholsky, Benjamin, Hamner, Bradley, Holguin, German, Hull, Larry, Jones, Vincent, Kantor, George, Koselka, Harvey, Li, Guiqin, Owen, James, Park, Johnny, Shi, Wenfan, Teza, James
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01-10-2010
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
Control
Crops
Dynamical Systems
Engineering
Insects
Mechatronics
Robotics
Robotics and Automation
Special Issue
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Vibration
Crop intelligence
Crop load estimation
Insect monitoring
Caliper measurement
Reconfigurable mobility
Specialty crops
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1861-2776
1861-2784
DOI:10.1007/s11370-010-0074-3