Next generation image guided citrus fruit picker

2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, TePRA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 37-41

  Aloisio, Christopher ^a   Mishra, Ranjan Kumar ^a   Chang, Chu Yin ^a   English, James ^a  

^a Energid Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

citrus harvesting; machine vision; robotic fruit picking

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIDGE; FLEXIBLE TUBES; FRUIT HARVESTING; IMAGE-GUIDED; MACHINE VISION CAMERAS; MASSACHUSETTS; MECHANICAL METHODS; PICKING SYSTEM; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; ROBOTIC GUIDANCE; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SENSOR INPUTS; SYSTEM USE; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES;

CITRUS FRUITS; COMPUTER VISION; HARVESTING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84863676138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TePRA.2012.6215651     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

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2. Brown, G.K., D.L. Peterson and J.H. Levin. 1983a. A tree Fruit Harvesting Systems. In: Principles and Practices for Harvesting and Handling Fruits and Nuts (O'Brien)
3. Holt, J.S. 1999. Implications of reduced availability of seasonal agricultural workers on the labor intensive sector of U.S agriculture. A Paper presented at the ASAE/CSAE Annual International Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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5. Zahara, M. and Johnson, S.S. 1979. Status of harvest mechanization of fruit, nuts and vegetables. HortScience 14(5):578-582.
6. Energid has filed a patent on the technology. The patent, "Flexible Robotic Manipulation Mechanism," application number 12/435,873, covers the vision-driven frog-tongue harvesting mechanism described in this document.