Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 6776: Human & ndash;Robot Interaction in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 6776: Human–Robot Interaction in Agriculture: A Systematic Review Sensors doi: 10.3390/s23156776 Authors: Lefteris Benos Vasileios Moysiadis Dimitrios Kateris Aristotelis C. Tagarakis Patrizia Busato Simon Pearson Dionysis Bochtis In the pursuit of optimizing the efficiency, flexibility, and adaptability of agricultural practices, human–robot interaction (HRI) has emerged in agriculture. Enabled by the ongoing advancement in information and communication technologies, this approach aspires to overcome the challenges originating from the inherent complex agricultural environments. Τhis paper systematically reviews the scholarly literature to capture the current progress and trends in this promising field as well as identify future research directions. It can be inferred that there is a growing interest in this field, which relies on combining perspectives from several disciplines to obtain a holistic understanding. The subject of the selected papers is mainly synergistic target detection, while simulation was the main methodology. Furthermore, melons, grapes, and strawberries were the crops with the highest interest for HRI applications. Finally, collaboration and cooperation were the most preferred interaction modes, with various levels of automation being examined. On all occasions, the synergy of humans and robots demonstrated the best results in terms of system performance, physical workload of...
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