Mechanized production of processing tomatoes depends on coordinated operations, but crop variability and successive material transfers make performance strongly condition-dependent. This narrative review used structured, non-systematic literature identification across multidisciplinary databases and publisher platforms...
This review examines changes in the operator’s role and the technologies used to navigate and control combine harvesters to reduce operator workload, improve harvesting accuracy, minimize missed areas and overlaps, and promote an operator role transition from direct driving to system supervision, emergency intervention...
Yi-Heng Qian, Yu Zhang, Shu-Hao Fu et al.· Frontiers in Sustainable Foo...· 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
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
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...
Strawberry production is economically important but remains highly dependent on labour-intensive harvesting. The delicate texture, irregular distribution, and non-uniform maturity of strawberry fruit create substantial challenges for mechanised and robotic operations. This review examines the development of strawberry-...
