Tracteur agricolevignette|Tracteur à pétrole Daimler (1912). vignette|Un tracteur New Holland T6070 de 2012. vignette|Un modèle réduit de tracteur Renault D22 de 1957. Un tracteur agricole (du latin trahere) est un véhicule automoteur, équipé de roues ou de chenilles, et qui remplit trois fonctions dans les travaux agricoles, ruraux ou forestiers : la traction de remorques ou de « machines ou instruments agricoles remorqués » destinés au transport ou à la mise en valeur de l'exploitation, tels que les épandeurs à fumier, les pulvérisateurs traînés, les matériels de récolte, et labourer les terres pour les semis et récoltes.
Sustainability measurementSustainability measurement is a set of frameworks or indicators to measure how sustainable something is. This includes processes, products, services and businesses. Sustainability is difficult to quantify. It may even be impossible to measure. To measure sustainability, the indicators consider environmental, social and economic domains. The metrics are still evolving. They include indicators, benchmarks and audits. They include sustainability standards and certification systems like Fairtrade and Organic.
Weak and strong sustainabilityAlthough related, sustainable development and sustainability are two different concepts. Weak sustainability is an idea within environmental economics which states that 'human capital' can substitute 'natural capital'. It is based upon the work of Nobel laureate Robert Solow, and John Hartwick. Contrary to weak sustainability, strong sustainability assumes that 'human capital' and 'natural capital' are complementary, but not interchangeable. This idea received more political attention as sustainable development discussions evolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Feature (computer vision)In computer vision and , a feature is a piece of information about the content of an image; typically about whether a certain region of the image has certain properties. Features may be specific structures in the image such as points, edges or objects. Features may also be the result of a general neighborhood operation or feature detection applied to the image. Other examples of features are related to motion in image sequences, or to shapes defined in terms of curves or boundaries between different image regions.
Développement durablevignette|Diagramme de Venn du développement durable, à l'intersection de trois préoccupations, dites « les trois piliers du développement durable ».Les descriptions des intersections partielles peuvent varier. Le développement durable (, parfois traduit par développement soutenable) est une conception du développement qui s'inscrit dans une perspective de long terme et en intégrant les contraintes environnementales et sociales à l'économie.
Index of sustainability articlesThis page is an index of sustainability articles. Adiabatic lapse rate - Air pollution control - Air pollution dispersion modeling - Allotment (gardening) - Anaerobic digestion - Anthropogenic - Anthroposystem - Applied Sustainability - Appropriate technology - Aquaculture - Aquatic ecosystem - Ashden Awards Back-to-the-land movement - Bagasse - Behavioral ecology - Biobutanol - Biodegradable plastics - Bioenergy - Bioenergy village - Biofuel in Brazil - Biofuel in the United States - Biofuel - Biogas - Bi
Robotique industriellevignette|droite|Un robot industriel Kawasaki FS-03N, robot de soudage La robotique industrielle est officiellement définie par l'Organisation Internationale de Normalisation (ISO) comme étant un système commandé automatiquement, multi-applicatif, reprogrammable, polyvalent, manipulateur et programmable sur trois axes ou plus. Les applications typiques incluent les robots de soudage, de peinture et d'assemblage. L'avantage de la robotique industrielle est sa rapidité d'exécution et sa précision ainsi que la répétition de cette précision dans le temps.
Robot end effectorIn robotics, an end effector is the device at the end of a robotic arm, designed to interact with the environment. The exact nature of this device depends on the application of the robot. In the strict definition, which originates from serial robotic manipulators, the end effector means the last link (or end) of the robot. At this endpoint, the tools are attached. In a wider sense, an end effector can be seen as the part of a robot that interacts with the work environment.