An Extensive Review of Mobile Agricultural Robotics for Field Operations: Focus on Cotton Harvesting
AgriEngineering, 2020 In this review, we examine opportunities and challenges for 21st-century robotic agricultural cotton harvesting research and commercial development. The paper reviews opportunities present in the agricultural robotics industry, and a detailed analysis is
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Real-Time Fruit Recognition and Grasping Estimation for Robotic Apple Harvesting
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.
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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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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.
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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.
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A Survey of Robotic Harvesting Systems and Enabling Technologies [PDF]
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications, 2023 Nikolaos L Tsakiridis +2 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,
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An Overview of End Effectors in Agricultural Robotic Harvesting Systems
Agriculture, 2022 In recent years, the agricultural sector has turned to robotic automation to deal with the growing demand for food. Harvesting fruits and vegetables is the most labor-intensive and time-consuming among the main agricultural tasks. However, seasonal labor
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Evaluation of Tomato Fruit Harvestability for Robotic Harvesting
2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 2021 Harvestability is a quantitative index of how easy tomato fruits are to harvest using a robot. Previous studies on tomato harvesting robots have focused on tomato fruit detection methods, harvesting mechanisms, harvesting success rates, and harvesting times. However, tomato fruit harvestability using robots has not been quantitatively assessed. In this
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Development of a Visual Servo System for Robotic Fruit Harvesting
AgriEngineering, 2021 One of the challenges in the future of food production, amidst increasing population and decreasing resources, is developing a sustainable food production system.
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