Designing a robotic gripper for harvesting horticulture products

Robotica

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 105-111

  Ceccarelli, Marco ^a   Figliolini, Giorgio ^a   Ottaviano, Erika ^a   Mata, Antonio Simon ^b   Criado, Emilio Jimenez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMATIC CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS;

HORTICULTURE PRODUCTS;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 0033896455     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026357479900226X     Document Type: Article

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