Title
Path Planning for ground robots in agriculture: a short review
Abstract
The world's population is estimated to reach nine billion people by the year 2050, which indicates that agricultural productivity must increase sustainably. The mechanisation and automatisation of agricultural tasks is an essential step to face population growth. Ground robots have been developed along the last decade for several agricultural applications, being, the autonomous and safe navigation one of the hardest challenge in this development. Moving autonomously, a mobile platform involves different tasks, such as localisation, mapping, motion control, and path planning, a crucial step for autonomous operations. This article performs a survey of different applications for path planning techniques applied to various agricultural contexts. This paper analyses different agricultural applications and details about the employed path planning method. The conclusion indicates that path planning has been successfully applied to agrarian robots for field coverage and point-to-point navigation, being that coverage path planning is slightly more advanced in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICARSC49921.2020.9096177
2020 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Autonomous navigation,Path Planning,agricultural robotics,heuristic,survey
Conference
2573-9360
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-7079-4
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luís Santos110.36
Filipe Neves dos Santos22312.24
E. J. Solteiro Pires38113.95
António Valente410.36
Paulo Costa5105.60
Sandro Magalhães620.76