Digitization and Automation An Overview of Field-Robotics in Agricultural Engineering

After the introduction of assistance and automation technology, the next step is now towards highly and fully automated agricultural machinery. Technological advances in the development of sensors, but also compact drive and energy storage systems are opening up more and more areas of application for field robots. In the near future, innovative field robots working in swarms will perform a wide range of tasks more ecologically and economically than traditional concepts. The use of field robots makes an important contribution to precision farming, so that for example every single plant in the crop can be examined and nurtured for its individual needs. In this article, various field robots are presented in more detail and their functions explained.