Determining the 3-D location of the apple fruit during harvest

Proceedings of the International Conference on Automation Technology for Off-road Equipment, ATOE 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 91-97

  Bulanon, D M ^a   Kataoka, T ^a   Okamoto, H ^a   Hata, S ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apple; Harvesting; Image Processing; Machine Vision; Sensor Fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; FRUITS; HARVESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

APPLE; LASER RANGING; MANIPULATOR; SENSOR FUSION;

ROBOTS;

APPLES; DISTANCE; HARVESTING; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; ROBOTS; VISION;

EID: 27844527629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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