Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles

In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of new and more powerful perception systems for agriculture, such as computer-vision and global positioning systems. Due to these advances, the automation of agricultural tasks has received an important stimulus, especially in the ar...

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Main Authors:	Emmi, Luis, Gonzalez-de-Soto, Mariano, Pajares, Gonzalo, Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003928/

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spelling	pubmed-40039282014-04-29 Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles Emmi, Luis Gonzalez-de-Soto, Mariano Pajares, Gonzalo Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo Article In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of new and more powerful perception systems for agriculture, such as computer-vision and global positioning systems. Due to these advances, the automation of agricultural tasks has received an important stimulus, especially in the area of selective weed control where high precision is essential for the proper use of resources and the implementation of more efficient treatments. Such autonomous agricultural systems incorporate and integrate perception systems for acquiring information from the environment, decision-making systems for interpreting and analyzing such information, and actuation systems that are responsible for performing the agricultural operations. These systems consist of different sensors, actuators, and computers that work synchronously in a specific architecture for the intended purpose. The main contribution of this paper is the selection, arrangement, integration, and synchronization of these systems to form a whole autonomous vehicle for agricultural applications. This type of vehicle has attracted growing interest, not only for researchers but also for manufacturers and farmers. The experimental results demonstrate the success and performance of the integrated system in guidance and weed control tasks in a maize field, indicating its utility and efficiency. The whole system is sufficiently flexible for use in other agricultural tasks with little effort and is another important contribution in the field of autonomous agricultural vehicles. MDPI 2014-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4003928/ /pubmed/24577525 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140304014 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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author	Emmi, Luis Gonzalez-de-Soto, Mariano Pajares, Gonzalo Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo
spellingShingle	Emmi, Luis Gonzalez-de-Soto, Mariano Pajares, Gonzalo Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
author_facet	Emmi, Luis Gonzalez-de-Soto, Mariano Pajares, Gonzalo Gonzalez-de-Santos, Pablo
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title	Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
title_short	Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
title_full	Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
title_fullStr	Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
title_full_unstemmed	Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles
title_sort	integrating sensory/actuation systems in agricultural vehicles
description	In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of new and more powerful perception systems for agriculture, such as computer-vision and global positioning systems. Due to these advances, the automation of agricultural tasks has received an important stimulus, especially in the area of selective weed control where high precision is essential for the proper use of resources and the implementation of more efficient treatments. Such autonomous agricultural systems incorporate and integrate perception systems for acquiring information from the environment, decision-making systems for interpreting and analyzing such information, and actuation systems that are responsible for performing the agricultural operations. These systems consist of different sensors, actuators, and computers that work synchronously in a specific architecture for the intended purpose. The main contribution of this paper is the selection, arrangement, integration, and synchronization of these systems to form a whole autonomous vehicle for agricultural applications. This type of vehicle has attracted growing interest, not only for researchers but also for manufacturers and farmers. The experimental results demonstrate the success and performance of the integrated system in guidance and weed control tasks in a maize field, indicating its utility and efficiency. The whole system is sufficiently flexible for use in other agricultural tasks with little effort and is another important contribution in the field of autonomous agricultural vehicles.
publisher	MDPI
publishDate	2014
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Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles

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