Survey of Agricultural Robot Applications and Implementation

With the increasing demand for crops, maintaining high efficiency with large quantities of production is required, and the traditional methods to control the farm is getting tedious and prone to decision making mistakes. Therefore, using robotics to carry on these tasks is useful, as robots can work under adverse weather conditions, and this will protect the farmworker from exposure to health risks, especially that skin cancer is more common among farmers. In this paper, a survey of the implementation and navigation of autonomous aerial and ground robots for monitoring plant health, ripeness, and soil moisture using different approaches is presented. This is a work-in-progress, and these techniques will be implemented on a low-cost affordable robotic vehicle such as the Turtlebot to perform these tasks efficiently, thereby minimizing the presence of human workers on the field during adverse weather conditions hence protecting their health and well-being.