Abstract

Therapiddevelopmentofnewtechnologiesandthechanginglandscapeoftheonlineworld (e.g., Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of All, cloud-based solutions) provide a unique opportunity for developing automated and robotic systems for urban farming, agriculture, and forestry. Technological advances in machine vision, global positioning systems, laser technologies, actuators, and mechatronics have enabled the development and implementation of robotic systems and intelligent technologies for precision agriculture. Herein, we present and review robotic applications on plant pathology and management, and emerging agricultural technologies for intra-urban agriculture. Greenhouse advanced management systems and technologies have been greatly developed in the last years, integrating IoT and WSN (Wireless Sensor Network). Machine learning, machine vision, and AI (Artificial Intelligence) have been utilized and applied in agriculture for automated and robotic farming. Intelligence technologies, using machine vision/learning, have been developed not only for planting, irrigation, weeding (to some extent), pruning, and harvesting, but also for plant disease detection and identification. However, plant disease detection still represents an intriguing challenge, for both abiotic and biotic stress. Many recognition methods and technologies for identifying plant disease symptoms have been successfully developed; still, the majority of them require a controlled environment for data acquisition to avoid false positives. Machine learning methods (e.g., deep and transfer learning) present promising results for improving imageprocessingandplantsymptomidentification. Nevertheless,diagnosticspecificityisachallenge for microorganism control and should drive the development of mechatronics and robotic solutions for disease management.

Autore Pugliese

• De Bellis Luigi , Luvisi Andrea

Tutti gli autori

• Ampatzidis Y. , De Bellis L. , Luvisi A.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Anno di pubblicazione

2017

ISSN

2071-1050

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Numero di citazioni Scopus

2

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018

Settori ERC

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