Visual feedback guided robotic cherry tomato harvesting

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2331-2338

  Kondo, N ^a,b,d   Nishitsuji, Y ^b   Ling, P P ^a,c   Ting, K C ^a,c  

^a ASAE ^*  (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cherry tomatoes; Feedback control; Harvesting; Machine vision; Robotics; Visual sensor

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM VAR. CERASIFORME;

EID: 0030498674     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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