An Overview of Cooperative Robotics in Agriculture

Agricultural robotics has been a popular subject in recent years from an academic as well commercial point of view. This is because agricultural addresses critical issues such seasonal shortages manual labor, e.g., during harvest, the increasing concern regarding environmentally friendly practices. On one hand, several individual robots have already developed for specific tasks (e.g., monitoring, spraying, harvesting, transport, etc.) with varying degrees effectiveness. other use cooperative teams farming not widespread; yet, it emerging trend. paper presents comprehensive overview work carried out so far area and identifies state-of-the-art. also outlines challenges to be addressed fully automating production; latter promising sustaining increasingly vast human population, especially cases pandemics COVID-19 pandemic.