An extensive review of mobile agricultural robotics for field operations: focus on cotton harvesting
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Date
2020-03-04
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MDPI
Abstract
In this review, we examine opportunities and challenges for 21st-century robotic agricultural
cotton harvesting research and commercial development. The paper reviews opportunities present in
the agricultural robotics industry, and a detailed analysis is conducted for the cotton harvesting robot
industry. The review is divided into four sections: (1) general agricultural robotic operations, where
we check the current robotic technologies in agriculture; (2) opportunities and advances in related
robotic harvesting fields, which is focused on investigating robotic harvesting technologies; (3) status
and progress in cotton harvesting robot research, which concentrates on the current research and
technology development in cotton harvesting robots; and (4) challenges in commercial deployment
of agricultural robots, where challenges to commercializing and using these robots are reviewed.
Conclusions are drawn about cotton harvesting robot research and the potential of multipurpose
robotic operations in general. The development of multipurpose robots that can do multiple operations
on different crops to increase the value of the robots is discussed. In each of the sections except the
conclusion, the analysis is divided into four robotic system categories; mobility and steering, sensing
and localization, path planning, and robotic manipulation.
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Robotics, Cotton harvesting, Harvesting robotics, Cotton harvesting robotics