Actuators and sensors for application in agricultural robots: A review

D Xie, L Chen, L Liu, L Chen, H Wang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, with the rapid development of science and technology, agricultural robots
have gradually begun to replace humans, to complete various agricultural operations …

Visual perception enabled industry intelligence: state of the art, challenges and prospects

J Yang, C Wang, B Jiang, H Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual perception refers to the process of organizing, identifying, and interpreting visual
information in environmental awareness and understanding. With the rapid progress of …

Research progress of autonomous navigation technology for multi-agricultural scenes

B Xie, Y Jin, M Faheem, W Gao, J Liu, H Jiang… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the increasing demand for food, the global shortage of agricultural labor and the
reduction in the utilization of agricultural resources, the demand for agricultural autonomous …

Using a depth camera for crop row detection and mapping for under-canopy navigation of agricultural robotic vehicle

J Gai, L Xiang, L Tang - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer vision provides local environmental information for robotic navigation in crop
fields. It is particularly useful for robots operating under canopies of tall plants such as corns …

Medial axis-based machine-vision system for orchard robot navigation

S Opiyo, C Okinda, J Zhou, E Mwangi… - … and Electronics in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel medial axis-based machine vision technique for
autonomous path tracking and navigation of an agricultural robot in orchards. In the …

Robotic platform for horticulture: assessment methodology and increasing the level of autonomy

A Kutyrev, N Kiktev, M Jewiarz, D Khort, I Smirnov… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The relevance of the study is confirmed by the rapid development of automation in
agriculture, in particular, horticulture; the lack of methodological developments to assess the …

Design and development of orchard autonomous navigation spray system

S Wang, J Song, P Qi, C Yuan, H Wu, L Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Driven by the demand for efficient plant protection in orchards, the autonomous navigation
system for orchards is hereby designed and developed in this study. According to the three …

Development of a combined orchard harvesting robot navigation system

W Mao, H Liu, W Hao, F Yang, Z Liu - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Our research concerned the development of an autonomous robotic navigation system for
orchard harvesting with a dual master-slave mode, the autonomous navigation tractor …

Fruit detachment force of multiple varieties kiwifruit with different fruit-stem angles for designing universal robotic picking end-effector

W Fang, Z Wu, W Li, X Sun, W Mao, R Li… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fruit detachment force (FDF) between fruit and stem, is one of the important physical
parameters for designing fruit picking robot. Orchards planted with multiple varieties kiwifruit …

Integrated positioning system of kiwifruit orchard mobile robot based on uwb/lidar/odom

L Jia, Y Wang, L Ma, Z He, Z Li, Y Cui - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
To address the issue of low positioning accuracy of mobile robots in trellis kiwifruit orchards
with weak signal environments, this study investigated an outdoor integrated positioning …