Evaluation of a strawberry-harvesting robot in a field test

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-171

  Hayashi, Shigehiko ^a   Shigematsu, Kenta ^a   Yamamoto, Satoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Ken ^a   Kohno, Yasushi ^b   Kamata, Junzo ^c   Kurita, Mitsutaka ^c  

^a Institute of Agricultural Machinery   (Japan)

^b Ehime Research Institute of Agriculture   (Japan)

^c SI Seiko Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DAMAGE DETECTION; END EFFECTORS; HARVESTING; MANIPULATORS;

ELEVATED SUBSTRATE CULTURES; FUNCTIONAL TEST; HARVESTING RATE; HARVESTING ROBOT; HUMAN ASSESSMENT; NIGHT OPERATION; SUCTION DEVICES; WORK EFFICIENCY;

FRUITS;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 75349100758     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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