As the representation of new concept agricultural machinery,agricultural robots possess great advantages of improving agricultural productivity,enhancing production environment and solving the problem of labor shortag...As the representation of new concept agricultural machinery,agricultural robots possess great advantages of improving agricultural productivity,enhancing production environment and solving the problem of labor shortage.Therefore,the strategy for application of agricultural robots and precision agriculture to improve the intelligence and information level of agriculture is the inevitable trend for China’s agriculture in the twentieth century.Based on the developmental status of agricultural robots in China,the agricultural robots are categorized and the performances,structures and characteristics of various agricultural robots such as vegetable grafting robots,transplanting robots,spraying robots,mowing robots,harvesting robots,grading and detecting robots are amply introduced.It can be seen that vegetable grafting robots,spraying robots,harvesting robots,grading and detecting robots have already been put into production while others are still at experimental stage.At present,there are several problems such as low popularization,great limitations,high cost and low intelligence,which greatly restrict the development of agricultural robots in China.Thus,open agricultural robot system with good expansibility,generality and flexibility should be developed and adopted to decrease its cost and shorten developing cycle.The mechanical structure of robots should also be designed as simply as possible.Finally,multi-robot system would become another important development direction of agricultural robots in the future.展开更多
基金This work is financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(50575206)the National High-Tech Research and Development(863)Program of China(2007AA04Z222).
文摘As the representation of new concept agricultural machinery,agricultural robots possess great advantages of improving agricultural productivity,enhancing production environment and solving the problem of labor shortage.Therefore,the strategy for application of agricultural robots and precision agriculture to improve the intelligence and information level of agriculture is the inevitable trend for China’s agriculture in the twentieth century.Based on the developmental status of agricultural robots in China,the agricultural robots are categorized and the performances,structures and characteristics of various agricultural robots such as vegetable grafting robots,transplanting robots,spraying robots,mowing robots,harvesting robots,grading and detecting robots are amply introduced.It can be seen that vegetable grafting robots,spraying robots,harvesting robots,grading and detecting robots have already been put into production while others are still at experimental stage.At present,there are several problems such as low popularization,great limitations,high cost and low intelligence,which greatly restrict the development of agricultural robots in China.Thus,open agricultural robot system with good expansibility,generality and flexibility should be developed and adopted to decrease its cost and shorten developing cycle.The mechanical structure of robots should also be designed as simply as possible.Finally,multi-robot system would become another important development direction of agricultural robots in the future.
