Title
Highlights and preliminary results for autonomous crop protection.
Abstract
•Intelligent pest control remains a mayor challenge to agriculture.•The autonomous tractor used in this work was able to track each straight line with high degree of accuracy.•The new design concept was able to autonomously adjust spray application according tree sizes and orchard structure.•The intelligent spray boom responded satisfactorily to variation in the level of weed infestation in the field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.compag.2014.11.010
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Keywords
Field
DocType
Autonomous tractor,Precision crop protection,RTK-GPS,Precision agriculture
Sprayer,Crop protection,Simulation,Pest control,Integrated pest management,Precision agriculture,Control engineering,Engineering,Field trial,Variable Rate Application,Tractor,Agricultural engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
110
C
0168-1699
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.69
2
Authors
8