Robotic Cotton Harvesting and Field Fiber Seed Separation Approaches and Challenges

Different aspects of robotic cotton harvesting including UAV-UGV cooperation, and end-effector design, besides field ginning, have been discussed in this study. The discussed items are as follow:

UAV-UGV cooperation: the goal of this idea is to find dense places in the field (which has more cotton bolls) and then command the harvester to go to those areas and perform harvesting. 

End-effector: The ultimate goal of the Cotton-Inc is to make a robot that uses just solar power. In this regard, an especial end effector is being designed.

Field-ginning: since field ginning requires a lot of energy and extra facilities in the field, it is not sensible to pursue this idea.