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Guoquan Jiang is a leading researcher in agricultural robotics, with a core focus on machine vision systems for autonomous navigation and crop management. His work addresses the critical challenge of enabling robots to perceive and interact with unstructured field environments. Jiang’s major contributions lie in developing robust, real-time image processing algorithms for crop row detection and fruit recognition. His seminal 2010 paper on machine vision-based crop row detection (37 citations) proposed a novel method using the Hough transform to reliably identify plant rows, providing a foundational guidance system for weeding, spraying, and fertilizing robots. He further advanced this with a baseline detection and matching model (17 citations) for precise robot localization. Extending perception to harvesting, Jiang developed an automatic apple recognition method (12 citations) using optimized color space transformation (2R-G-B) to accurately detect fruit in complex orchard settings. With over 78 combined citations across his most-cited works, Jiang’s contributions have directly enabled more intelligent and autonomous agricultural machinery, reducing reliance on manual labor and improving precision farming. His research remains a key reference for engineers developing vision-based navigation and harvesting systems for field robots.