Michele Raffaelli
Papers
11
Total Citations
230
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About
Michele Raffaelli is an agricultural engineer whose research sits at the intersection of precision agriculture, sustainable weed management, and agricultural robotics. Based at an Italian research institution, Raffaelli has made significant contributions to reducing chemical inputs in farming through the development and evaluation of mechanical and thermal weed control technologies. His most influential work, a 2017 review on intra-row weed control machines (92 citations), has become an essential reference for researchers and practitioners seeking herbicide-free alternatives in both narrow and wide-row crops, systematically cataloguing cultivators, finger-weeders, and thermal devices. Complementing this, his earlier investigations into flame weeding in maize and innovative physical weed strategies in vegetable crops further cemented his expertise in low-input cropping systems. Raffaelli has also emerged as a leading voice in autonomous agricultural machinery, evaluating robotic mowers across diverse settings — from ornamental turfgrass to artichoke fields — and contributing to broader systematic reviews of field robots in agriculture. His work on vegetable transplanting grippers highlights an additional dimension of agricultural automation. With over 200 cumulative citations across a decade of productive research, Raffaelli's portfolio represents a coherent and growing body of work shaping the future of sustainable, mechanized farming.
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