TY - JOUR
T1 - Human–robot collaboration systems in agricultural tasks
T2 - A review and roadmap
AU - Adamides, George
AU - Edan, Yael
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev through the Agricultural, Biological and Cognitive Robotics Initiative, the Marcus Endowment Fund, and the W. Gunther Plaut Chair in Manufacturing Engineering.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Despite intensive R&D on agricultural robotics in the past decade, implementation of agricultural robotics remains limited due to the complex unstructured agricultural environment that confines performance. A possible way to increase performance is by human-robot collaboration (HRC) approaches for agricultural tasks and applications. The first contribution of this study comprises a quantitative review of the literature on HRC systems, detailing 27 distinct projects performed over the past 21 years. The review revealed that the important and innovative topics being investigated in HRC in agriculture focus on safety, ergonomics, awareness, and productivity and that most of the HRC work in agriculture has been devoted to harvesting and spraying tasks. The second contribution of this study constitutes a roadmap identifying specific R&D directions required to improve performance and implement HRC in agriculture in practice. Specifically, we define aspects of HRC systems for efficient collaboration and functionality, and we also delineate performance measures and experimentation procedures. The paper concludes with constraints, future challenges, and prospects for HRC in the context of smart agriculture.
AB - Despite intensive R&D on agricultural robotics in the past decade, implementation of agricultural robotics remains limited due to the complex unstructured agricultural environment that confines performance. A possible way to increase performance is by human-robot collaboration (HRC) approaches for agricultural tasks and applications. The first contribution of this study comprises a quantitative review of the literature on HRC systems, detailing 27 distinct projects performed over the past 21 years. The review revealed that the important and innovative topics being investigated in HRC in agriculture focus on safety, ergonomics, awareness, and productivity and that most of the HRC work in agriculture has been devoted to harvesting and spraying tasks. The second contribution of this study constitutes a roadmap identifying specific R&D directions required to improve performance and implement HRC in agriculture in practice. Specifically, we define aspects of HRC systems for efficient collaboration and functionality, and we also delineate performance measures and experimentation procedures. The paper concludes with constraints, future challenges, and prospects for HRC in the context of smart agriculture.
KW - Agriculture
KW - Human-robot collaboration
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Robotics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compag.2022.107541
DO - 10.1016/j.compag.2022.107541
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85144090993
SN - 0168-1699
VL - 204
JO - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
JF - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
M1 - 107541
ER -