Zhong Tang

Toward Sustainable Mechanized Production of Processing Tomatoes: Crop–Machine Interactions, Operational Trade-Offs, and Pathways for Intelligent Control

Mechanized production of processing tomatoes depends on coordinated operations, but crop variability and successive material transfers make performance strongly condition-dependent. This narrative review used structured, non-systematic literature identification across multidiscip...

Sweet Pepper Harvesting Robots: Advances in Perception, Decision-Making, Manipulation and Mobile Systems

Sweet pepper is a high-value crop in protected horticulture whose robotic harvesting is complicated by canopy occlusion, asynchronous ripening, the need for precise peduncle cutting, and stringent damage limits. This review presents a systematic search and narrative synthesis gui...

Research Progress on Intelligent Seeding Technology and Equipment: The Development of Seeders from Multi-Functional Integration to Agricultural Intelligent Agents

Seeding constitutes a key crop-production operation that governs seed spatial arrangement, crop population structure, and potential yield formation, and forms the foundation of precise, efficient, and eco-friendly farming. However, field soil properties, regional climate, and cro...

Soybean Seed Characterization and Discrete Element Parameter Calibration for Harvesting Simulation

Mulched drip irrigation is an important water-saving production system for soybean cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions. However, soybean materials harvested from this system exhibit specific physical characteristics, including relatively dry pods and seeds and high stem moi...

Design and Validation of a Permanent Magnet Self-Locking Electromagnetic Balancing Device for Combine Harvester Threshing Drums

Imbalance-induced vibration of the threshing drum is a common problem during rice harvesting, especially when rice straw becomes entangled with the threshing components. In this study, a permanent magnet self-locking electromagnetic balancing device was designed for a combine har...