Agricultural drip fertigation is a highly coupled dynamic process in which precision resource management depends on the coordinated performance of the entire equipment chain. Against the backdrop of global water scarcity and excessive fertilizer application, improving the full-process precision of mixing, injection, se...
Gan Liu, Qi He, Jun Zhang et al.· Processes· 0 citations
Inland waters such as lakes, reservoirs, rivers, fish ponds, and confined hydraulic structures impose turbidity, shallow-water acoustic multipath, dense boundaries, dynamic biological interference, and limited communication on underwater robots. These coupled constraints can simultaneously degrade sensing, localization...
Rui-Fan Tang, Qian-Run Zang, Yu Zhang et al.· Italian National Conference...· 0 citations
Agricultural machinery operates under variable loads, impacts, dust, and changing soil–crop interactions, allowing faults to propagate through energy, material, information, and control pathways. This qualitative review synthesizes 195 research publications across fault formation, trustworthy diagnosis, prognostics and...
Yu Zhang, Xing-Zhu Qian, Rui-Fan Tang et al.· Italian National Conference...· 1 citation
To address labor shortages and rising production costs in the tea industry, as well as the limited adaptability of machinery to hilly and mountainous tea plantations, this study systematically screened and synthesized the literature published between 1990 and 2026 following the PRISMA framework, ultimately including 21...
Xing-Jian Yang, Yu Zhang, Ya-Peng Wu et al.· Frontiers in Sustainable Foo...· 0 citations
High-value greenhouse crops require quality-sensitive selective harvesting under labor shortages and variable crop conditions. This review synthesizes 188 unique primary studies and examines robotic harvesting as a complete task chain rather than a set of isolated sensing or manipulation modules. Embodied intelligence...
Sweet pepper is a high-value crop in protected horticulture whose robotic harvesting is complicated by canopy occlusion, asynchronous ripening, the need for precise peduncle cutting, and stringent damage limits. This review presents a systematic search and narrative synthesis guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for...
Rui Zhang, Ya-Peng Wu, Ting-Rui Cui et al.· Machines· 0 citations
With the rapid expansion of modern facility agriculture, harvesting robots for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and other solanaceous fruits have become key equipment for alleviating labor shortages. However, in unstructured greenhouse and open-field scenarios, branch and leaf occlusion, overlapping fruit clusters, var...
Yuxuan Chen, Jian-Peng Jing, Bin Li et al.· Agriculture· 0 citations
Field crops change continuously across growth stages, exhibit substantial spatial heterogeneity, and must be managed within short operational windows. This study presents a structured narrative review of information sensing and intelligent monitoring from pre-sowing conditions to stand establishment, growth and yield f...
Agricultural soil contact components, including ploughshares, rotary blades, and furrow openers, form the active interface between machinery and complex field media. Operating in multiphase environments, these tools face severe abrasive wear, impact fatigue, and interfacial adhesion. These destructive forces irreversib...
P. Chu, Hong-Lei Zhang, Zhao Ding et al.· Lubricants· 1 citation
Industrial chili peppers are specialized varieties primarily used for the extraction of capsaicinoids and paprika red. Their post-harvest processing level directly affects product quality and industrial economic benefits. Most existing studies have focused on a single unit operation or on edible chili peppers, and a sy...
Dong Lv, Chirui Zhang, Gan Liu et al.· Processes· 0 citations
Grapes intended for fresh consumption, winemaking, raisin production and processing differ markedly in quality requirements and tolerance to harvest damage, making a universally suitable mechanised harvesting pathway unlikely. This review synthesises low-damage grape harvesting from an end use-oriented sustainability p...
