Automation in Agriculture

Yael Edan; Shufeng Han; Naoshi Kondo

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7_63

Automation in Agriculture

Yael Edan, Shufeng Han, Naoshi Kondo

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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The complex agricultural environment combined with intensive production requires development of robust systems with short development time at low cost. The unstructured nature of the external environment increases chances of failure. Moreover, the machines are usually operated by low-tech personnel. Therefore, inherent safety and reliability is an important feature. Food safety is also an issue requiring the automated systems to be sanitized and reliable against leakage of contaminations. This chapter reviews agricultural automation systems including field machinery, irrigation systems, greenhouse automation, animal automation systems, and automation of fruit production systems. Each section describes the different automation systems with many application examples and recent advances in the field.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Springer Handbook of Automation
Editors	Shimon Y. Nof
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages	1095-1128
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540788317
ISBN (Print)	9783540788300
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78831-7_63
State	Published - Jul 2009

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