Abstract: Autonomous plant alive status monitoring and corresponding localization of individual plant are two important tasks in precision agriculture. In this study, two new methods that are crucial to such robotic operations are ...

Abstract: Cooperative small harvesting robots, mimicking a group of human pickers, have the potential to significantly reduce labor dependence in strawberry production. A tri-layered algorithm is investigated to effectively assign ...

Abstract: Accurate path scouting control of an autonomous agricultural robot is substantially influenced by terrain variability, field patterns, and uncertainties in sensed information. Based on conventional farming techniques, the ...

Abstract: The recently developed bioinspired virtual motion camouflage (VMC) method can be used to rapidly solve nonlinear constrained optimal trajectory problems. However, the optimality of VMC solution is affected by the dimension ...

Abstract: To enhance mechanical and/or electrical properties of composite materials used in additive manufacturing, nanoparticles are oftentimes deposited to form nanocomposite layers. To customize the mechanical and/or electrical ...

Abstract: Agricultural field operations, such as harvesting for fruits and scouting for disease, are labor intensive and time consuming. With the recent push toward autonomous farming, a method to rapidly generate trajectories for ...

Abstract: Engineering education needs to focus on equipping students with foundational math, science, and engineering skills, with development of critical and higherorder thinking so they can address novel and complex problems and ...