Indoor robot gardening: Design and implementation

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 219-232

  Correll, Nikolaus ^a   Arechiga, Nikos ^b   Bolger, Adrienne ^b   Bollini, Mario ^b   Charrow, Ben ^b   Clayton, Adam ^b   Dominguez, Felipe ^b   Donahue, Kenneth ^b   Dyar, Samuel ^b   Johnson, Luke ^b   Liu, Huan ^b   Patrikalakis, Alexander ^b   Robertson, Timothy ^b   Smith, Jeremy ^b   Soltero, Daniel ^b   Tanner, Melissa ^b   White, Lauren ^b   Rus, Daniela ^b  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor gardening; Robotic agriculture; Tomato detection

Indexed keywords

EYE-IN-HAND; INDOOR GARDENING; MESH NETWORK; MOBILE MANIPULATOR; MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SOIL HUMIDITY; TASK ALLOCATION; TOMATO DETECTION;

AGRICULTURE; FRUITS; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77957357000     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-010-0076-1     Document Type: Article

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