From industry 4.0 to agriculture 4.0: Current status, enabling technologies, and research challenges

Y Liu, X Ma, L Shu, GP Hancke… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The three previous industrial revolutions profoundly transformed agriculture industry from
indigenous farming to mechanized farming and recent precision agriculture. Industrial …

Recognition and localization methods for vision-based fruit picking robots: A review

Y Tang, M Chen, C Wang, L Luo, J Li, G Lian… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The utilization of machine vision and its associated algorithms improves the efficiency,
functionality, intelligence, and remote interactivity of harvesting robots in complex …

Survey for smart farming technologies: Challenges and issues

G Idoje, T Dagiuklas, M Iqbal - Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has been a major influence in Agriculture since its
application to the sector. This paper provides an extensive review of the use of smart …

Application of consumer RGB-D cameras for fruit detection and localization in field: A critical review

L Fu, F Gao, J Wu, R Li, M Karkee, Q Zhang - Computers and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fruit detection and localization are essential for future agronomic management of fruit crops
such as yield prediction, yield mapping and automated harvesting. However, to perform …

Soft grippers for automatic crop harvesting: A review

E Navas, R Fernández, D Sepúlveda, M Armada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

weednet: Dense semantic weed classification using multispectral images and mav for smart farming

I Sa, Z Chen, M Popović, R Khanna… - IEEE robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Selective weed treatment is a critical step in autonomous crop management as related to
crop health and yield. However, a key challenge is reliable and accurate weed detection to …

Human–robot interaction in agriculture: A survey and current challenges

JP Vasconez, GA Kantor, FAA Cheein - Biosystems engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nowadays, robotics as machinery for planting or harvesting is solved in different
countries.•However, harvest of crops like fruits and vegetables is still manually …

Autonomous sweet pepper harvesting for protected cropping systems

C Lehnert, A English, C McCool… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest
sweet pepper in protected cropping environments. Our approach combines effective vision …

Vision systems for harvesting robots: Produce detection and localization

LE Montoya-Cavero, RD de León Torres… - … and electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last few years, the use of artificial intelligence and technological advances such as
deep learning, new 3D-capable sensors, and edge computing embedded systems have …

Automatic apple recognition based on the fusion of color and 3D feature for robotic fruit picking

Y Tao, J Zhou - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2017 - Elsevier
Accurate apple recognition is a vital step in the operation of robotic fruit picking. To improve
robot recognition ability and perception in three-dimensional (3D) space, an automatic …