Smart Mechanization and Automation in Agriculture
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2024) | Viewed by 13812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agricultural machinery; sensors; automation; intelligence; conservation tillage; tillage technology; seeding technology
Interests: agricultural machinery; conservation tillage; sensors; automation; intelligence; plant protection
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural machinery is an important part of agricultural modernization. Agricultural machinery automation and intelligence is a comprehensive application of agricultural mechanization technology, computer technology, sensor technology and control technology. It can accurately and intelligently control and manage agricultural production, thereby improving crop quality and agricultural production efficiency, reducing costs and environmental damage. Automatic and intelligent agricultural machinery has a wide range of applications in field planting, including tillage, sowing, fertilization, irrigation, plant protection, harvesting and so on. It also includes the collection and processing of agricultural production information so as to provide decisions and prescriptions for agricultural production.
This Special Issue aims to deepen our understanding of the modernization of agricultural machinery, focusing on the application of automation and intelligent technologies in agricultural machinery, and stimulate further technological developments for sustainability and intelligence of agricultural production. For these reasons, it welcomes highly interdisciplinary quality studies from disparate research fields. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- the design and performance evaluation of agricultural machinery;
- mechatronics and control system for agricultural machinery;
- AI-based decision support systems for agricultural production;
- sensor technology for agricultural machinery and agricultural production information collection.
Prof. Dr. Dongyan Huang
Dr. Gang Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural machinery
- sensors
- automation
- intelligence
- conservation tillage
- tillage technology
- seeding technology
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