| ISHS Acta Horticulturae 1395: II International Symposium on Precision Management of Orchards and Vineyards
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| Author: | M. Karkee |
| Keywords: | AI, automation, orchards, precision agriculture, robotics, tree fruit |
| DOI: | 10.17660/ActaHortic.2024.1395.47 |
| Abstract:
AI and robotics have been and will continue to play a key role in reducing farming inputs such as labor, water, and fertilizer, and increasing productivity. Modular sensing, automation, and robotics technologies developed in recent years (including mobile device-based applications), decreasing cost and increasing capabilities of sensing, control, and automation technologies such as UAVs, robust AI tools such as deep learning, and increasing emphasis by governments around the world in advancing AI-empowered smart and automated technologies have created a conducive environment to develop and adopt smart, robotic farming systems for the benefit of agricultural industries around the world with a wide range of farming scale and environment. In this presentation, the importance of AI-empowered precision and automated/robotic systems is discussed in context of the future of farming (Smart Farming, Ag 4.0). A summary of past efforts and the status of agricultural automation and robotics in fruit orchards is also presented, including examples from apple harvesting, fruit tree pruning, and flower thinning, followed by an introduction of the novel systems being developed at the Washington State University Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems. In the end, major challenges and opportunities in agricultural robotics and related areas, including potential future directions in research and development, will be discussed. | |
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