supported in part by the Modern Agriculture Project of Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Plan Special Fund Project(Grant No.BE2022363);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Univerisities(Grant No.KYCXJC2024003);the Modern Agricultural Machinery Equipment and Technology Demonstration and Promotion Project of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.NJ2022-03).
Considering the current environmental pollution caused by chemical topping,plant damage caused by mechanical topping,and the high cost of manual topping,a laser-based cotton-tip pruning robot for field cotton was desi...
A fine-tuned height-adjustable cotton topper was developed and evaluated in this study.Cotton is topped at the late flowering stage because spindling reduces cotton production and complicates harvest.The main disadvan...