In this paper, we propose a novel medial axis-based machine vision technique for
autonomous path tracking and navigation of an agricultural robot in orchards. In the …

Electrostatic sprayers can be an option for increasing the effectiveness of treatments and
reducing pesticide consumption, but it still requires more verifications, especially in …

Air-assisted spraying technology is widely used in orchard sprayers to disturb canopy leaves
and force droplets into the plant canopy to reduce droplet drift and increase spray …

Efficient utilization is a pre-requisite for pesticide reduction, and appropriate airflow
distribution pattern plays a key role in enhancing the effectiveness of pesticide application …

Pesticide application is essential for improving crop productivity; however, undesirable
pesticide drift must be mitigated because of its adverse impacts on humans, the environment …

Highlights Airblast sprayer drift potential was evaluated up to 183 m (600 ft) downwind from
an orchard edge. A central leader apple orchard was sprayed at dormant and full canopy …

Advanced variable-rate spray technology, which applies pesticides based on real-time
scanning laser rangefinder measurements of plant presence, size, and density, was …

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to use folic acid and zinc nitrate to construct a
biocompatible supramolecular hydrogel loaded with the herbicide dicamba as an ultra‐low …

An orchard sprayer prototype running a variable-rate algorithm to adapt the spray volume to
the canopy characteristics (dimensions, shape and leaf density) in real-time was designed …

Passive samplers are especially inefficient when collecting and measuring the finest
particles in primary airborne spray drift far from the spray source. We describe a method to …