Harvesting machinery has the main function of cutting, picking, or digging mature crop seeds, fruits, stalks, leaves, root parts, or the whole plant and are also necessary to complete collection, threshing, cleaning, transfer, and other operations. The characteristics of harvesting machinery are as follows: first, the operating object is biological
second, the working process refers to the separation between plant tissues or the separation of a plant from soil
and third, the working environment is unstructured. Therefore, efficient harvesting machinery is an area of comprehensive research that integrates the fields of mechanical and biological material, information, and computers. This Special Issue focused on precise identification and positioning systems ("eyes"), sensitive decision-making and control systems ("brain"), highly adaptable chassis and mobile platforms ("feet"), efficient end-effectors and harvesting components ("hands"), etc., related to efficient harvesting machinery. The topics of the publications include: Crop-soil-machine systems
Mechanics and dynamics of harvesting machinery
Chassis of harvesting machinery
Efficient harvesting components
Field environment sensing and recognition
Navigation and positioning systems of harvesting machinery
Multi-source information fusion, analysis, and decision making in harvesting operations
Cooperative harvesting operations of multiple machines in the field
Unmanned harvesters.
1. harvester, efficient harvesting, harvester chassis, intelligent agricultural equipment, smart agriculture, image recognition, navigation, decision and control algorithms
2. Biology, life sciences
3. Research & information: general
4. Technology, engineering, agriculture