Mobile Robots for Digital Farming

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference for agricultural mobile robots, covering all aspects of the design process, from sensing and perceiving to planning and acting for practical farming applications.

Mobile Robots for Digital Farming explores topics such as Robot Operating Systems (ROS), dynamic simulation, artificial intelligence, image processing, and machine learning. Additionally, it features multiple case studies from funded projects and real-field trials.

This book will be useful for professors and academics in various engineering disciplines (mechanical, robotics, control, electrical, computer, and agricultural), graduate and undergraduate students, farmers, commercial growers, startups, private companies, consultancy agencies, equipment suppliers, and agricultural policymakers.

Redmond R. Shamshiri is a scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) working toward digitization of agriculture for food security. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural automation with a focus on control systems and dynamics. His research fields include autonomous navigation of agricultural mobile robots, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence for collision avoidance, Teleoperation, wireless systems, and optimization of controlled environment agriculture.

Ibrahim A. Hameed is currently a Professor and the Deputy Head of research and innovation, and the Head of the international master program in simulation and visualization with the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, where he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of ICT and Natural Sciences, since 2015.