Robot ensembles for grafting herbaceous crops

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 227-239

  Comba, Lorenzo ^a   Gay, Paolo ^a,b   Ricauda Aimonino, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automation; Robotics; Vegetable grafting

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CROPS; FUMIGATION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRODUCTIVITY; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VEGETABLES;

AUTOMATED MACHINES; COOPERATIVE ROBOTS; DISTRIBUTED TASKS; HEURISTIC SCHEDULING; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; MACHINE MECHANICS; SOIL-BORNE PATHOGENS;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84983584982     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.02.012     Document Type: Article

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