Machine vision algorithm for robots to harvest strawberries in tabletop culture greenhouses

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-30

  Rajendra, Peter ^a   Kondo, Naoshi ^b   Ninomiya, Kazunori ^a   Kamata, Junzo ^a   Kurita, Mitsutaka ^a   Shiigi, Tomowo ^c   Hayashi, Shigehiko ^d   Yoshida, Hirotaka ^d   Kohno, Yasushi ^e  

^a SISeiko CoLtd   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Protected Cultivation Engineering Laboratory   (Japan)

^e Ehime Prefecture Agricultural Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Harvesting robot; Rail type traveling device; Stereo vision; Strawberry; Tabletop cultivation; Wrist joint.

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; END EFFECTORS; FRUITS; GREENHOUSES; HARVESTING; MANIPULATORS; RAILROADS; ROBOTS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION;

FIELD CONDITIONS; HARVESTING ROBOT; INCLINATION ANGLES; LIMITED VISIBILITY; MACHINE VISION ALGORITHM; PATTERN CHANGE; STRAWBERRY; WRIST JOINTS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 79954576939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1881-8366(09)80023-2     Document Type: Article

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