Robotic agriculture-the future of agricultural mechanisation?

Precision Agriculture 2005, ECPA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 621-628

  Blackmore, Simon ^a   Stout, Bill ^b   Wang, Maohua ^c   Runov, Boris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Texas A and M   (United States)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Moscow State Agroengineering University   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Mechanisation; Phytotechnology; Robotic weeding; Robots

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT; AUTONOMOUS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT MACHINE; MECHANISATION; PHYTOTECHNOLOGY; PRECISION FARMING; ROBOTIC WEEDING;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MECHANIZATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84893387450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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