Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming

RR Shamshiri, C Weltzien, IA Hameed, IJ Yule… - 2018 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Digital farming is the practice of modern technologies such as sensors, robotics, and data
analysis for shifting from tedious operations to continuously automated processes. This …

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 …

Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This review investigates the research effort, developments and innovation in agricultural
robots for field operations, and the associated concepts, principles, limitations and gaps …

[HTML][HTML] Review of smart robots for fruit and vegetable picking in agriculture

Z Wang, Y Xun, Y Wang, Q Yang - International Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - mail.ijabe.org
The fruit and vegetable picking has posed a great challenge on the production and markets
during the harvest season. Manual picking cannot fully meet the rapid requirements of each …

Dex-net 3.0: Computing robust vacuum suction grasp targets in point clouds using a new analytic model and deep learning

J Mahler, M Matl, X Liu, A Li, D Gealy… - … on robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vacuum-based end effectors are widely used in industry and are often preferred over
parallel-jaw and multifinger grippers due to their ability to lift objects with a single point of …

Agricultural robots for field operations. Part 2: Operations and systems

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

State of the art robotic grippers and applications

K Tai, AR El-Sayed, M Shahriari, M Biglarbegian… - Robotics, 2016 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we present a recent survey on robotic grippers. In many cases, modern
grippers outperform their older counterparts which are now stronger, more repeatable, and …

Design and control of an apple harvesting robot

Z De-An, L Jidong, J Wei, Z Ying, C Yu - Biosystems engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
A robotic device consisting of a manipulator, end-effector and image-based vision servo
control system was developed for harvesting apple. The manipulator with 5 DOF PRRRP …

An extensive review of mobile agricultural robotics for field operations: focus on cotton harvesting

KG Fue, WM Porter, EM Barnes, GC Rains - AgriEngineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this review, we examine opportunities and challenges for 21st-century robotic agricultural
cotton harvesting research and commercial development. The paper reviews opportunities …

Development of an autonomous tomato harvesting robot with rotational plucking gripper

H Yaguchi, K Nagahama, T Hasegawa… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a design and development an autonomous tomato harvesting
robot. We developed a harvesting robot with stereo camera which can measure depth in …