Agricultural Robot under Solar Panels for Sowing, Pruning, and Harvesting in a Synecoculture Environment

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

In this paper, the authors introduce the design and implement of an agricultural robot which can sow, prune, and harvest in dense and diverse vegetation. The  4-wheel and orthogonal axes mechanism can improve the movability and  dexterity of the robot. The field experiment verified the proposed the design of the robot. The results of this paper can improve the efficiency of agricultural cultivation and harvesting, which is an important contribution to Synecoculture. There are some comments below:  

    1. Please add the units in the figures.   

2. The velocity of the robot running on the uneven terrain was not verified.

3. What is the relationship between the calculation results from equation 1-3 and the decision of the specific hardware?

4. The authors claimed that the complex environments are not suitable for automation. However, the environments that presented in the experiments section are quite simple to the view of the reviewer.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This paper mainly deals with the development of an agricultural robot for the management of Synecoculture compatible with the complex vegetation under solar panels. The robot was capable of movement where there were no paved road surfaces and could perform the three tasks of sowing, pruning, and harvesting. Design, integration and trial were presented to demonstrate the research work. The topic is very interesting and valuable. however, the paper was not properly written in the format of research article. Comments are given as follows.

1. Details of mathematical modeling, performance analysis and parameter determination were missing in the design section.

2. Control of movement of robot, mostly performed by electric motor control was not described in detail. i.e. what kind of control strategy was employed in order to overcome the complicated working environment?

3. most of figures are not readable, especially in the experimental section. overall, figures with data plotting are not presented sufficiently.  too many pictures are inserted in the manuscript. 

 

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript has been revised according to the comments. It can be considered for publication now.