Agricultural robotics: A state of the art survey

摘要

The constant increase in the world population has progressively demanded that humanity develop new technologies to face challenges such as providing high-quality food to the consumer market.In this sense, the concept of precision agriculture arises, proposing the development of agricultural activities such as preparing the land, sowing, planting, treating plants and harvesting automatically through robotic systems.This study focuses on performing a systematic review of the state of the art of robotics applications to execute agricultural activities.Through a comparative analysis of the existing solutions it was possible to highlight the similarities, differences and limitations of several agricultural robots.After looking at the needs of agricultural tasks and the limitations of robots, the challenges that are still unresolved and their possible solutions are indicated.