Robotic melon harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 831-835

  Edan, Yael ^a,b   Rogozin, Dima ^c   Flash, Tamar ^c   Miles, Gaines E ^d  

^a IEEE

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HARVESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ROBOTIC HARVESTING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034471009     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.897793     Document Type: Article

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