Agriculture & Harvesting Robots

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Organizations [top]

Research Labs [top]

Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel - multi-purpose agricultural robot
Carnegie Mellon University, The Robotics Institute & National Robotics Engineering Consortium, US - self-propelled hay harvester for agricultural operations, automated golf course mowing, tree spraying
Cranefield University, Center for Precision Farmin, UK - autonomous agricultural robot
Dalhousie University, Canada - robotic harvesting
Halmstad University, Sweden - robot for weed control
Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden - precise navigation for an agricultural robot
Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, US - robotic systems for selective harvesting of field crops
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, US - Automatic and Autonomous Guidance for Precision Agriculture
Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution, Institute of Agricultural Machinery, Japan - Human Sensing System for Safety Agricultural Robot
Bioresource Engineering Department, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, US - Robotic for plant production, bio-production systems.
Graduate School of Agriculture, Bioproduction Enginering, Hokkaido University - Crop Production Engineering Laboratory
Halmstad University, Sweden - Agriculture robot for weed control
Ohio State University - Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, US - automation for controlled environment plant production, rototics and mechatronics for bioprocesses
Praktijkonderzoek Veehouderij, Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, Netherlands - EU-Project Automated Milking, Robotic Milking
Tokyo University of Agriculture, Department of Bioproduction and Environment Engineering, Japan - Laboratory of Farm Robotics
University of Hohenheim, Agricultural Engineering, Germany - optimizing of milking technique for the milking robot
University of West of England, Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory, UK - The SlugBot
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Silsoe Research Insitute, UK - Automated Mushroom Harvesting
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Malaysia - Smart Farming
Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Australia - Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Surveying and Land Information

Companies [top]

Lely Industries NV, The Netherlands - Astronaut robotic milking system
WIC-IDEAL Group, Canada - Grain Feeding Robots
Biocontrol Network, US - Yamaha RMAX Aero Robot: precision in pesticide & fertilizer delivery
Bou-Matic, Netherlands - The Daytona rms-x Exterior Rotary Milking System
Denning Branch International Robotics, Australia - walking robots for forestry and rubber latex harvesting in plantations
Fullwood Limited, UK - Automated Milking Robot Merlin
GM Liberty Robotic Milking System
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DeLaval - VMS voluntary milking system
Prolion Holding N.V., Netherlands - Automatic Milking System
TE STRAKE Engineering and Production, Netherlands - Milking robot, Picking and Sorting Robot

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Conferences [top]

Australian Society for Engineering in Agriculture, Wagga Wagga, Australia - The next conference is planned for 2006.
The 12th IEEE Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Manila, Philippines - Nov 29th - Dec 2nd, 2005.
The First North American Conference on Robotic Milking Canada
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AgEng 2002, Budapest, Hungary - International Conference on Agricultural Engineering

Journals [top]

Publications [top]

Special Issue: Robots in Practical Use Working Outside. In: Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 18 (7), November 2000
Y. Edan. Design of an autonomous agricultural robot. In: The Intl. Journal of Applied Intelligence, 5 (1), pp. 41-50, Special Issue on Autonomous Systems, 1995.
J. Billingsley, M. Schoenfisch. Vision Systems in Agriculture. In: Proc. Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, pp 16-21, 1994.
Good value for money, it deserves to succeed. Nature, 383. Special Issue on Agricultural Robots of the Journal Autonomous Robots, 1996.
B. Astrand, A.J. Baerveldt. Design of an Agricultural Mobile Robot for Mechanical Weed Control. In: Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, Eurobot '01, Sept. 2001.
W.S. Lee, D.C. Slaugther and D.K. Giles Robotic Weed Control System for Tomatoes. In: Precision Agricultre 1, pp. 95-113, 1999
K. Cooper, D.J. Parsons. An Economic Analysis of Automatic Milking Using a Simulation Model. In: Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research
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Thesis: Examinations on the Use of an Automatic Milking System on a Dairy Farm (Summary) by Joachim Liebler

Articles / Press [top]

Tutorials / Seminars [top]

Fairs / Exhibits [top]

Contests [top]

Field Robot Contest - Wageningen, Netherlands
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Other [top]

Laboratory of Agricultural Systems Engineering - List of Recent English Publications in Laboratory of Agricultural Systems Engineering
Robot Milking - Experiences from Netherlands
United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service
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