Current developments in automated citrus harvesting

ASAE Annual International Meeting 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 4187-4196

  Hannan, Michael W ^a   Burks, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated; Citrus; Fruit; Gripper; Harvester; Harvesting; Image processing; Machine vision; Mechanical; Oranges; Picking; Real time; Robot; Robotic; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

GRIPPER; MECHANICAL; REAL TIME; VISUAL SERVOING;

AUTOMATION; FRUITS; HARVESTERS;

HARVESTING;

CITRUS FRUITS; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING;

EID: 30044437449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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