AUTOMATION AND ROBOTS
Using robotic operations to accomplish repetitive or difficult tasks in biological systems can reduce production expenses, enhance consistency, and free humans to accomplish other duties. Examples include machine weeding around plants, robotic milking of dairy cows, robots that harvest nuts, fruits, and vegetables, or automation of implement control such as section controllers on sprayers, boom height, tillage implement depth, combine threshing/cleaning settings, and navigation.
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One of the challenges in fully utilizing data from cropping systems is integrating all of the assorted “layers” of data that should accompany yield data. Some of this is public (soil, topography, weather) and much is private (as applied maps, seed, chemical, fertilizer choices, costs,…
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During the Spring 2021 semester, Purdue Agriculture hosted a weekly webinar series featuring experts in data science and digital agriculture at Purdue University. Each Thursday from February through May, the Data Driven Agriculture webinars explored ways digital agriculture and data science can impact agriculture today and into the future. “Building on the momentum of last…
READ MOREJohn Evans, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and David Cappelleri, associate professor of mechanical engineering, at Purdue University recently presented as part of the Data Driven Agriculture webinar series. Cappelleri discussed the new NSF Engineering Research Center on the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag). IoT4Ag researchers will work in three interconnected…
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