Real-Time Fruit Recognition and Grasping Estimation for Robotic Apple Harvesting [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 Robotic harvesting shows a promising aspect in future development of agricultural industry. However, there are many challenges which are still presented in the development of a fully functional robotic harvesting system.
Hanwen Kang +3 more
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Hybrid Visual Servo Control of a Robotic Manipulator for Cherry Tomato Harvesting
Actuators, 2023 This paper aims to develop a visual servo control of a robotic manipulator for cherry tomato harvesting. In the robotic manipulator, an RGB-depth camera was mounted to the end effector to acquire the poses of the target cherry tomatoes in space.
Yi-Rong Li +3 more
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Robotic Aubergine Harvesting Using Dual-Arm Manipulation
IEEE Access, 2020 Interest in agricultural automation has increased considerably in recent decades due to benefits such as improving productivity or reducing the labor force.
Delia Sepulveda +4 more
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Gripping Success Metric for Robotic Fruit Harvesting
SensorsRecently, computer vision methods have been widely applied to agricultural tasks, such as robotic harvesting. In particular, fruit harvesting robots often rely on object detection or segmentation to identify and localize target fruits.
Dasom Seo, Il-Seok Oh
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A Survey of Robotic Harvesting Systems and Enabling Technologies [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 2023 This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products and results, as well as their enabling technologies. The majority of literature
Leonidas Droukas +2 more
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Structural Parameter Optimization of a Tomato Robotic Harvesting Arm: Considering Collision-Free Operation Requirements [PDF]
PlantsThe current harvesting arms used in harvesting robots are developed based on standard products. Due to design constraints, they are unable to effectively avoid obstacles while harvesting tomatoes in tight spaces.
Chuanlang Peng +6 more
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Branch Interference Sensing and Handling by Tactile Enabled Robotic Apple Harvesting
Agronomy, 2023 In the dynamic and unstructured environment where horticultural crops grow, obstacles and interference frequently occur but are rarely addressed, which poses significant challenges for robotic harvesting.
Hongyu Zhou +5 more
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NRLC-YOLO for lightweight detection and grasp positioning of latex cups in rubber plantations [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceNatural rubber harvesting remains highly dependent on manual labor, particularly during latex cup collection, which limits efficiency and increases operational costs.
Ruiwu Xu +4 more
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A Study on the Feasibility of Robotic Harvesting for Chile Pepper
Robotics, 2021 This paper presents a study on the robotic harvesting of New Mexico type chile pepper, in a laboratory setting, using a five degrees of freedom (DoF) serial manipulator.
Muhammad Umar Masood +1 more
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Agricultural Harvesting Robot Concept Design and System Components: A Review
AgriEngineering, 2023 Developing different robotic platforms for farm operations is vital to addressing the increasing world population. A harvesting robot significantly increases a farm’s productivity while farmers focus on other relevant farm operations. From the literature,
Mohd Fazly Mail +5 more
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