Design and experiment of picking mechanism for strawberry harvesting robot

Nongye Jixie Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 155-161

  Zhang, Kailiang ^a   Yang, Li ^b   Zhang, Tiezhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Actuator; Harvesting robot; Scatheless picking; Strawberry

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PICKING; HARVESTING ROBOT; HIGH-PRECISE; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; SCATHELESS PICKING; STRAWBERRY; SUCCESS RATIO;

COMPUTER VISION; EXPERIMENTS; FRUITS; HARVESTING; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 80053994048     PISSN: 10001298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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