Design and control of an apple harvesting robot

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-122

  De An, Zhao ^a   Jidong, Lv ^a   Wei, Ji ^a   Ying, Zhang ^a   Yu, Chen ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FRUITS; HARVESTING; INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATORS; MACHINE DESIGN; MANIPULATORS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DESIGN AND CONTROL; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FRUIT RECOGNITION; HARVESTING ROBOT; INDUSTRIAL COMPUTERS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; VISION SERVO CONTROL;

END EFFECTORS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 80052940906     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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