Agriculture Reference
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on the information presented in this chapter, the authors believe that we will see
a paradigm shift in the size of field machinery. The first commercially success-
ful autonomous agricultural vehicles will be low power (<30 kW) and lightweight
(<2 T). Principal field tasks will be low-draft operations such as no-till seeding and
spraying. The shift to smaller sized equipment autonomous vehicles will be accom-
panied by a reduction in machine life (<25% of current machines). The philosophy
will be to design vehicles that mechanically fail at about the same point they reach
obsolescence (approximately five cropping seasons). Furthermore, symmetry will
be used to minimize the overall number of parts required to build the power units,
thereby increasing volume and reducing productions costs. Perhaps the most crucial
and tangible benefit to follow from the reduced equipment size will be the ability of
manufacturers and producers to manage the liability of fully autonomous machines.
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