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Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture

arXiv 1806.06762 ↗First posted 18 Jun 2018cs.ROcited by 17

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Abstract (arXiv)

Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates over pounds108bn p.a., with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry and exports pounds20bn of UK manufactured goods. However, the global food chain is under pressure from population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration, population drift from rural to urban regions and the demographics of an aging global population. These challenges are recognised in the UK Industrial Strategy white paper and backed by significant investment via a Wave 2 Industrial Challenge Fund Investment ("Transforming Food Production: from Farm to Fork"). Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) and associated digital technologies are now seen as enablers of this critical food chain transformation. To meet these challenges, this white paper reviews the state of the art in the application of RAS in Agri-Food production and explores research and innovation needs to ensure these technologies reach their full potential and deliver the necessary impacts in the Agri-Food sector.

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  1. 2023PhenoBench -- A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Semantic Image Interpretation in the Agricultural Domaincited by 31
  2. 2022A Survey of Computer Vision Technologies In Urban and Controlled-environment Agriculturecited by 6
  3. 2022The TerraByte Client: providing access to terabytes of plant datacited by 3
  4. 2021Presenting an extensive lab- and field-image dataset of crops and weeds for computer vision tasks in agriculturecited by 2
  5. 20213D shape sensing and deep learning-based segmentation of strawberriescited by 2
  6. 2021A Deep Learning Driven Algorithmic Pipeline for Autonomous Navigation in Row-Based Cropscited by 2
  7. 2024Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges, and Impactcited by 2
  8. 2025Self-Supervised Learning for Robotic Leaf Manipulation: A Hybrid Geometric-Neural Approachcited by 2
  9. 2021Using depth information and colour space variations for improving outdoor robustness for instance segmentation of cabbagecited by 1
  10. 2022Collection and Evaluation of a Long-Term 4D Agri-Robotic Datasetcited by 1
  11. 2023Autonomous Strawberry Picking Robotic System (Robofruit)cited by 1
  12. 2023Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Vertical Farmingcited by 1
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  1. 2023A pipeline for multiple orange detection and tracking with 3-D fruit relocalization and neural-net based yield regression in commercial citrus orchardscited by 1
  2. 2024Horticultural Temporal Fruit Monitoring via 3D Instance Segmentation and Re-Identification using Colored Point Cloudscited by 1
  3. 2026ForgeVLA: Federated Vision-Language-Action Learning without Language Annotationscited by 1
  4. 2022Plant Species Recognition with Optimized 3D Polynomial Neural Networks and Variably Overlapping Time-Coherent Sliding Windowcited by 0
  5. 2026Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigationcited by 0