ABSTRACT
Agriculture in developed countries after the Industrial Revolution has tended to favor increases in energy input through the use of larger tractors and increased chemical and fertilizer application. Although this agricultural technology has negative societal and environmental implications, it has supported food for rapidly increasing human populations. In Western countries, “sustainable agriculture” was developed to reduce the environmental impact of production agriculture (National Research Council, 1997). The global agricultural workforce continues to shrink, which means that each worker is responsible for greater areas of land. Simply continuing the current trend toward larger and heavier equipment is not the solution. A new mode of thought, a new agricultural technology, is required for the future. Intelligent robotic
2.1 Introduction to Agricultural Vehicle Robot .................................................... 15 2.2 Overview of a Robot Farming System ........................................................... 16 2.3 Navigation Sensors ......................................................................................... 17 2.4 Autonomous Navigation Control .................................................................... 17 2.5 Agricultural Robot Vehicles ...........................................................................20
