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ABSTRACT

Given the prediction that in 2050 agriculture will be doubled due to increasing earth population, the noticeable research question that arises is how do we incorporate safety in agricultural robots? Yet, due to the lack of standardization in this domain, the author will review well-established standards such as autonomous farm equipment, cab-less tractors, and forestry vehicles. Since these robots have come to reduce skilled labour, input costs, and environmental impact, this paper strives to emphasize the need of standardization and regulation framework that will step up the successful commercialization of heave farm machines. The upper goal is to establish a safety assessment improving the compliance with standards and taking account of the public trustworthiness in these emerging applications worldwide.

KEYWORDS

precision agriculture, robots, standardization, safety, risk assessment

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Economics World, Nov.-Dec. 2018, Vol. 6, No. 6, 472-481 doi: 10.17265/2328-7144/2018.06.006

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