Review on fruit harvesting method for potential use of automatic fruit harvesting systems

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue , 2011, Pages 351-366

  Li, Peilin ^a   Lee, Sang Heon ^a   Hsu, Hung Yao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automatic harvest; Fruit harvest; Image processing; Machine vision; Mechanical harvest; Physical sensor

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC HARVEST; CAMERA SENSOR; COST EFFECTIVE; FILTER DESIGNS; FRUIT HARVESTING; FRUIT TREES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; HARVESTING FRUITS; HARVESTING SYSTEM; HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MECHANICAL HARVEST; MECHANICAL HARVESTING SYSTEMS; ON-MACHINES; PHYSICAL SENSORS; REMOVAL METHOD; RESEARCH ISSUES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPATIAL LOCATION;

COMPUTER VISION; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; HARVESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ORCHARDS; POWER ELECTRONICS; PROFITABILITY; RESEARCH; SENSORS;

CITRUS FRUITS;

EID: 84862922863     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.11.2514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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