2023/11/30 by Ali Leylavi Shoushtari, Shoushtari, Ali Leylavi · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Robotics (cs.RO) #Smart Agriculture and AI #Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Tree Root and Stability Studies #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.00175
openalex publication_date 2023/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Agricultural robotics and automation are facing some challenges rooted in the high variability 9 of products, task complexity, crop quality requirement, and dense vegetation. Such a set of 10 challenges demands a more versatile and safe robotic system. Soft robotics is a young yet 11 promising field of research aimed to enhance these aspects of current rigid robots which 12 makes it a good candidate solution for that challenge. In general, it aimed to provide robots 13 and machines with adaptive locomotion (Ansari et al., 2015), safe and adaptive manipulation 14 (Arleo et al., 2020) and versatile grasping (Langowski et al., 2020). But in agriculture, soft 15 robots have been mainly used in harvesting tasks and more specifically in grasping. In this 16 chapter, we review a candidate group of soft grippers that were used for handling and 17 harvesting crops regarding agricultural challenges i.e. safety in handling and adaptability to 18 the high variation of crops. The review is aimed to show why and to what extent soft grippers 19 have been successful in handling agricultural tasks. The analysis carried out on the results 20 provides future directions for the systematic design of soft robots in agricultural tasks.