Mechatronics applications in agriculture can be traced back to mid-1980s, when research on automated systems for fruits harvesting
showed up in Japan, Europe and USA. Since then, impressive advances have been reached in advanced sensing and perception,
navigation and planning, actuation and manipulation, cognition and learning, communication and cooperation among Mechatronics
systems. These advancements allowed Mechatronics systems to tackle quite complex tasks even in dynamic and challenging
environments, disclosing the possibility of their introduction into a wide extent of agricultural operations such as harvesting, pruning,
thinning, mowing, spraying, weed removal and phyto-pharmaceutical treatments application using variable rate technologies....
Call for papers for a Focused Section on Mechatronics Applications in Agriculture
IEE/ASME Transactions on MECHATRONICS, Paper submission deadline: 15 July 2016
For further information concerning topics and manuscript submission details, please download the full CFP