A key goal of contemporary agriculture is to dramatically increase production of food, feed,
fiber, and biofuel products in a sustainable fashion, facing the pressure of diminishing farm …

Highlights•A coverage path tracking problem was defined for autonomous GNSS land
leveller.•A tractor-scraper kinematic model with slip compensation was established.•Control …

In this work, the output feedback sliding mode control (SMC) methods are developed for the
path-tracking control system of autonomous agricultural vehicles with unknown bounded …

The problem of determining a collision free path within a region is an important area of
research in robotics. One significant aspect of this problem is coverage path planning, which …

This letter describes Fields2Cover, a novel open source library for coverage path planning
(CPP) for agricultural vehicles. While there are several CPP solutions nowadays, there have …

Highlights•A complete coverage path planner for a fully autonomous tractor was
designed.•The planner automatically provides inner and outer-work paths in polygonal …

Automatic headland turning is an important part for an unmanned agricultural vehicle at
farming work. Minimize the time and travel distance and maximize the operation efficiency of …

Highlights•The optimisation of agricultural routing planning can improve field operation.•The
collection of field data from previous studies is valuable as datasets.•A new hybrid algorithm …

Optimisation of coverage path planning in arable farming is challenged by the huge
variation in field sizes and shapes occurring around the globe. In addition, the optimisation …

Complete coverage path planning (CCPP) is vital in mobile robot applications. Optimizing
CCPP is particularly significant in precision agriculture, where it enhances resource …