Field Robots for Intelligent Farms—Inhering Features from Industry
Estimations of world population growth urgently require improving the efficiency of agricultural processes, as well as improving safety for people and environmental sustainability, which can be opposing characteristics. Industry is pursuing these objectives by developing the concept of the “intellig...
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| author | Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos Roemi Fernández Delia Sepúlveda Eduardo Navas Luis Emmi Manuel Armada |
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| description | Estimations of world population growth urgently require improving the efficiency of agricultural processes, as well as improving safety for people and environmental sustainability, which can be opposing characteristics. Industry is pursuing these objectives by developing the concept of the “intelligent factory” (also referred to as the “smart factory”) and, by studying the similarities between industry and agriculture, we can exploit the achievements attained in industry for agriculture. This article focuses on studying those similarities regarding robotics to advance agriculture toward the concept of “intelligent farms” (smart farms). Thus, this article presents some characteristics that agricultural robots should gain from industrial robots to attain the intelligent farm concept regarding robot morphologies and features as well as communication, computing, and data management techniques. The study, restricted to robotics for outdoor farms due to the fact that robotics for greenhouse farms deserves a specific study, reviews different structures for robot manipulators and mobile robots along with the latest techniques used in intelligent factories to advance the characteristics of robotics for future intelligent farms. This article determines similarities, contrasts, and differences between industrial and field robots and identifies some techniques proven in the industry with an extraordinary potential to be used in outdoor farms such as those derived from methods based on artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, Big Data techniques, and cloud computing procedures. Moreover, different types of robots already in use in industry and services are analyzed and their advantages in agriculture reported (parallel, soft, redundant, and dual manipulators) as well as ground and aerial unmanned robots and multi-robot systems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba1f7cf242b842dcbda880ea210ae6532023-11-20T18:24:04ZengMDPI AGAgronomy2073-43952020-10-011011163810.3390/agronomy10111638Field Robots for Intelligent Farms—Inhering Features from IndustryPablo Gonzalez-de-Santos0Roemi Fernández1Delia Sepúlveda2Eduardo Navas3Luis Emmi4Manuel Armada5Centre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainCentre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainCentre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainCentre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainCentre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainCentre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC), Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SpainEstimations of world population growth urgently require improving the efficiency of agricultural processes, as well as improving safety for people and environmental sustainability, which can be opposing characteristics. Industry is pursuing these objectives by developing the concept of the “intelligent factory” (also referred to as the “smart factory”) and, by studying the similarities between industry and agriculture, we can exploit the achievements attained in industry for agriculture. This article focuses on studying those similarities regarding robotics to advance agriculture toward the concept of “intelligent farms” (smart farms). Thus, this article presents some characteristics that agricultural robots should gain from industrial robots to attain the intelligent farm concept regarding robot morphologies and features as well as communication, computing, and data management techniques. The study, restricted to robotics for outdoor farms due to the fact that robotics for greenhouse farms deserves a specific study, reviews different structures for robot manipulators and mobile robots along with the latest techniques used in intelligent factories to advance the characteristics of robotics for future intelligent farms. This article determines similarities, contrasts, and differences between industrial and field robots and identifies some techniques proven in the industry with an extraordinary potential to be used in outdoor farms such as those derived from methods based on artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, Big Data techniques, and cloud computing procedures. Moreover, different types of robots already in use in industry and services are analyzed and their advantages in agriculture reported (parallel, soft, redundant, and dual manipulators) as well as ground and aerial unmanned robots and multi-robot systems.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/10/11/1638agricultural manipulatorautonomous mobile robotmultirobot systemprecision agricultureintelligent farmssmart farm |
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| title | Field Robots for Intelligent Farms—Inhering Features from Industry |
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| title_sort | field robots for intelligent farms inhering features from industry |
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