1st Edition

Mobile Robots for Digital Farming

Edited By Redmond R. Shamshiri, Ibrahim A. Hameed Copyright 2025
    184 Pages 56 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    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 the 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.

    Chapter 1- Sensors, Algorithms, and Software for Autonomous Navigation of Agricultural Mobile Robots

    Chapter 2- Robot-Assisted Soil Apparent Electrical Conductivity Measurements in Orchards

    Chapter 3- Electrical Tractors for Autonomous Farming

    Chapter 4- Agricultural Robotics to Revolutionize Farming: Requirements and Challenges

    Chapter 5- Toward Optimizing Path Tracking of Agricultural Mobile Robots with Different Steering Mechanisms: A Simulation Framework

    Biography

    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.