Avital Bechar - Innovation in Agricultural Robotics for Precision Agriculture: A Roadmap for Integrating Robots in Precision Agriculture

This book series aims to provide a coherent framework to cover the multidisciplinary subject of Precision Agriculture (PA), including technological, agronomic, economic and sustainability issues of this subject. The target audience is varied and will be aimed at many groups working within PA including agricultural design engineers, agricultural economists, sensor specialists and agricultural statisticians. All volumes will be peer reviewed by an international advisory board.

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This book is part of the new book series on Precision Agriculture established by Springer with Margaret Oliver as the series editor. There are very few books that deal with agricultural robotics and even fewer on robotics and precision agriculture. Until recently, research in the fields of agricultural robotics and precision agriculture evolved along parallel paths with little interaction or few relations between them. The seeds for this book were resulted from the BARD international workshop on Innovation in Agricultural Robotics for Precision Agriculture and the 10th European Conference on Precision Agriculture at the Volcani Center, Israel, in 2015. The aim of the book is to introduce agricultural robotics for precision agriculture, to present the conditions, rules and limitations, concepts, principles and required abilities for implementing robots in precision agriculture tasks and to review the state-of-the-art of agricultural robotics in different aspects of precision agriculture. The chapters were written by leading experts showing the links between agricultural robotics and precision agriculture. The book aims to guide readers in research, development and design of agricultural robots for precision agricultural tasks. All chapters include case studies to illustrate the techniques.

The book starts with an introduction in Chap. provides a futuristic vision and aims to shed some light on the next steps in the evolution of precision agriculture and agricultural robotics and the technological factors that will drive this evolution.