Robotics and mechatronics for agriculture / editors: Dan Zhang and Bin Wei.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Process optimization of composting systems / Naoto Shimizu -- Overview of mechatronic design for a weed-management robotic system / T. Perez, O. Bawden, J. Kulk, R. Russell, C. McCool, A. English and F. Dayoub -- Robotics for spatially and temporally unstructured agricultural environments / Konrad Ahlin, Brad Bazemore, Byron Boots, John Burnham, Frank Dellaert, Jing Dong, Ai-Ping Hu, Benjamin Joffe, Gary McMurray, Glen Rains and Nader Sadegh -- Current and future applications of cost-effective smart cameras in agriculture / Young K. Chang and Tanzeel U. Rehman -- From manual farming to automatic and robotic based farming : an introduction / Dan Zhang and Bin Wei -- Cooperative robotic systems in agriculture / Khalid Salah and XiaoQi Chen -- Adaptive min-max model predictive control for field vehicle guidance in the presence of wheel slip / Xu Wang, Javad Taghia and Jay Katupitiya -- Model reference adaptive control for uncertain dynamical systems with unmatched disturbances : a command governor-based approach / Ehsan Arabi, Tansel Yucelen and Benjamin Gruenwald.

"This book introduces the state-of-the-art technologies in the field of robotics, mechatronics, and automation in agriculture in order to further summarize and improve the methodologies on agricultural robotics. Advances made in the past decades will be well described in this book, including robotics for agriculture, mechatronics for agriculture, kinematics, dynamics and control analysis of agricultural robotics, and a wide range of topics in field of robotics, mechatronics, and automation for agricultural applications"--Provided by publisher.