1. Agricultural Structures and Mechanization.
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Pérez-Alonso, José and Pérez-Alonso, José
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History of engineering & technology ,Technology: general issues ,Capsicum annuum L. ,Fuzzy-PID controller ,GHG emissions ,Matlab ,RSM ,Taguchi method ,agricultural machinery ,agricultural materials ,agriculture ,anti-drag ,apparent electrical conductivity ,baler ,bionic flexible gripper ,black soil ,blocking wheel ,breeding plots ,cleaning performance ,cleaning system ,corn ,corn combine harvester ,coupling bionic ,crop protection ,crushing length qualification rate ,cutting energy consumption ,design ,deviation tolerance ,discrete element method (DEM) ,discrete element modelling ,dried longan ,dynamic load spectrum ,economy ,end effector ,energy indicators ,evaluation method ,experiment ,famous tea ,fertilization ,fertilization uniformity ,fertilizing performance ,field experiment ,film mulching ,flexible holding ,freeze adhesion ,frozen corn ,greenhouse ,grouser shoe ,hand-held sprayer ,heating cost ,hill-drop sowing ,hot pepper harvester ,hydraulic scouring ,inclined inserted grafting ,interaction ,lifting mechanism ,longitudinal axial flow thresher ,low-damage harvesting ,machinery harvest efficiency ,maize straw ,mechanical damage ,mechanisation ,mechanization ,mini shovel ,model ,multi-objective optimization ,no-tillage drill ,non-chemical weed control ,octopus tentacles ,optimal design ,optimization ,optimization design ,organic farming ,orthogonal experiment ,parameter optimization ,plant protection products ,planting distance ,pneumatic drive ,potato planter ,power take-off ,precision agriculture ,precision farming ,prescription maps ,proximal sensing ,pull-out force ,quantum behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) ,research progress ,rice ,rice combine ,rice threshing ,robots ,screw fertilizer distributor ,seed metering device ,semi-buried lotus root ,silicone soft plate ,site-specific seeding ,soil adhesion ,soil covering device ,soil mechanical interaction ,straw ,straw back-throwing device ,straw returning ,structure parameters ,subsoiling machine ,subsoiling shovel design ,sugar beet ,telescopic pipe ,thermal efficiency ,threshed mixture ,threshing and separating device ,tillage depth control ,tillage depth detection ,tillage depth stability ,tractor PTO loading test bench ,transport ,uncertainty ,verification test ,weeding - Abstract
Summary: In our globalized world, the need to produce quality and safe food has increased exponentially in recent decades to meet the growing demands of the world population. This expectation is being met by acting at multiple levels, but mainly through the introduction of new technologies in the agricultural and agri-food sectors. In this context, agricultural, livestock, agro-industrial buildings, and agrarian infrastructure are being built on the basis of a sophisticated design that integrates environmental, landscape, and occupational safety, new construction materials, new facilities, and mechanization with state-of-the-art automatic systems, using calculation models and computer programs. It is necessary to promote research and dissemination of results in the field of mechanization and agricultural structures, specifically with regard to farm building and rural landscape, land and water use and environment, power and machinery, information systems and precision farming, processing and post-harvest technology and logistics, energy and non-food production technology, systems engineering and management, and fruit and vegetable cultivation systems. This Special Issue focuses on the role that mechanization and agricultural structures play in the production of high-quality food and continuously over time. For this reason, it publishes highly interdisciplinary quality studies from disparate research fields including agriculture, engineering design, calculation and modeling, landscaping, environmentalism, and even ergonomics and occupational risk prevention.