Overview
- The pasture robot – a revolution for cow pastures in terms of agriculture 4.0
- Based on the integration of known technologies and components
- Offers comprehensive information on the prototype’s development
- Features a wealth of illustrations and tables
Part of the book series: Fortschritte Naturstofftechnik (FNT)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The overall challenge in fodder production, and in milk and meat production, is to shift the focus away from the economic aspects and toward achieving a better balance with ecological and societal aspects. In the future, pastureland will become an increasingly valuable resource. Good pasture turf is the basis of high grazing performance and an efficient grazing farm; reduced quantity and quality of pasture forage are chiefly due to insufficient pasture care.
The prototype developed and discussed here, based on a commercially available remote-controlled mulcher, performs the selective pasture maintenance needed for precision farming. The vehicle has been upgradedwith a GPS system for automatic guidance, while a 2D laser scanner is used to localise relevant spots in real-time. The pasture maintenance operations include mulching of un-grazed spots and reseeding of damage done by footsteps. The book presents the results of field tests on effective spot detection and the fuel-saving benefits of selective mulching.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development of a system for selective pasture care by an autonomous mobile machine
Authors: Benjamin Seiferth
Series Title: Fortschritte Naturstofftechnik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61655-0
Publisher: Springer Vieweg Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-61654-3Published: 02 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-61655-0Published: 01 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-3365
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3373
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 106
Topics: Automotive Engineering, Machinery and Machine Elements, Engineering Design, Mechatronics