A review of Applications of Control Engineering in Greenhouses Part 1: Greenhouse Robots

Robot is an electro-mechanic machine that can operate automatically. The robots are especially suitable for doing tasks that are tedious, difficult and dangerous for human. Actually, the robots are substitute of humans for doing hard and repeatedly works in the future. One of the recent applications of the robots is doing different works in agriculture including greenhouses. Decreasing of work forces and requesting for more productions have resulted using the robots in agriculture. Presence of full automatic vehicles and robots that move inside the greenhouses by modern systems without human interference promise advanced greenhouse technologies in the 21th century. In this paper, after explaining importance and advantages of using the robots in greenhouses, types and parts of the greenhouse robots will be described. In addition, researches about using the robots in greenhouses will be reviewed.