ASI of Utah is working with Case IH and New Holland on vineyard and large-scale field equipment and operations, using a system that allows a single operator to simultaneously manage multiple vehicles. Advanced path-generating algorithms calculate the most efficient area coverage pattern for a field taking into account the type of task, size of implements, number of vehicles in the field, and vehicle and implement turn radius. Each unmanned farm vehicle is equipped with a series of hardware and software components that permit a user to toggle between manual and robotic control. The components work with the existing by-wire, mechanical or hydraulic control system and link vehicles to a central command station. |  ASI photo

Robots are coming to agriculture — get ahead of them

Back in my boyhood days on the farm, labour was the way to get things done. Our home farm was small but mostly self-sufficient. I and my three brothers milked cows by hand, stacked small hay bales in the barn by hand and cleaned the cattle and hog pens by hand. When we expanded the […] Read more