"Agricultural Robots: Fundamentals and Applications" ed. by Jun Zhou, Baohua Zhang

This book intends to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in agricultural robots, fundamentals, and applications in robotic agricultural operations.

Over the past few decades, extensive research has been conducted on the applications of agricultural robots and automation to a variety of field and greenhouse operations, and technical fundamentals and their feasibility have also been widely demonstrated. Due to the unstructured environment, adverse interference and complicated and diversified operation process are the key of blocking its commercialization in robotic agricultural operations. Because of the development of automation techniques, smart sensors, and information techniques, some types of agricultural robots have achieved considerable success in recent years.


Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Recent Development and Applications of Agricultural Robots
2.Development of a Field Robot Platform for Mechanical Weed Control in Greenhouse Cultivation of Cucumber
3.An Evaluation of Three Different Infield Navigation Algorithms
4.Agricultural Robot for Intelligent Detection of Pyralidae Insects
5.Hybrid-Powered Autonomous Robots for Reducing Both Fuel Consumption and Pollution in Precision Agriculture Tasks
6.Fundamental Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Support Precision Agriculture in Oil Palm Plantations
7.Multimodal Classification of Mangoes