Opportunities for Robotic Systems and Automation in Cotton Production Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Automation continues to play a greater role in agricultural production with commercial systems now available for machine vision identification of weeds and other pests, autonomous weed control, and robotic harvesters for fruits and vegetables. The growing availability of autonomous machines in agriculture indicates that there are opportunities to increase automation in cotton production. This article considers how current and future advances in automation has, could, or will impact cotton production practices. The results are organized to follow the cotton production process from land preparation to planting to within season management through harvesting and ginning. For each step, current and potential opportunities to automate processes are discussed. Specific examples include advances in automated weed control and progress made in the use of robotic systems for cotton harvesting.

published proceedings

  • AGRIENGINEERING

altmetric score

  • 4.1

author list (cited authors)

  • Barnes, E., Morgan, G., Hake, K., Devine, J., Kurtz, R., Ibendahl, G., ... Holt, G.

citation count

  • 13

complete list of authors

  • Barnes, Edward||Morgan, Gaylon||Hake, Kater||Devine, Jon||Kurtz, Ryan||Ibendahl, Gregory||Sharda, Ajay||Rains, Glen||Snider, John||Maja, Joe Mari||Thomasson, J Alex||Lu, Yuzhen||Gharakhani, Hussein||Griffin, James||Kimura, Emi||Hardin, Robert||Raper, Tyson||Young, Sierra||Fue, Kadeghe||Pelletier, Mathew||Wanjura, John||Holt, Greg

publication date

  • January 2021

publisher