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01-03-2020 | Guest Commentary

Autonomous Mobile Machines in Agricultural Engineering - What's Next?

Author: Thomas Herlitzius

Published in: ATZheavy duty worldwide | Issue 1/2020

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Agriculture 4.0 is the vision of the future, in which intelligent systems are connected, communicating and cooperating with each other in a way that highly automated production becomes possible. There are already a large number of intelligent and digital helpers, and there are also more and more ideas for smaller machines that can operate independently and driverless. This would be a paradigm shift and fundamental change in agricultural technology. The trend toward larger machines is being replaced by autonomously operating, configurable, task-oriented and scalable equipment systems with distributed electrical drives, which are gradually entering the market, starting from Western Europe. The operator will be part of the system, but not every single machine will have an operator. The farmer is the swarm leader who monitors, organizes and configures the system. This is the collaborative approach, where the operators continuously interact with the system and can take over tasks, which are difficult or not economical to automate. Collaborative automation is in essence an enabler of full automation. …

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Title
Autonomous Mobile Machines in Agricultural Engineering - What's Next?
Author
Thomas Herlitzius
Publication date
01-03-2020
Publisher
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Published in
ATZheavy duty worldwide / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 2524-8774
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41321-020-0073-z

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