Abstract
In the last few years robotics has been increasingly adopted in agriculture to improve productivity and efficiency. Most of the efforts in this research area have been devoted to fresh market fruit and vegetable harvesting tasks, which are generally, time consuming, tiring, and particularly demanding. For many crops, harvest labor accounts for as much as one-half to two-thirds of the total labor costs. Moreover, harvesting is expected to be automated due to a decrease in the farmer population.
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Foglia, M., Gentile, A., Reina, G. (2008). Robotics for Agricultural Systems. In: Billingsley, J., Bradbeer, R. (eds) Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74027-8_27
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