Study on an automatic packing system for strawberries

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 593-601

  Yamamoto, S ^a   Ochiai, Y ^a   Saito, S ^a   Hayashi, S ^a  

^a NARO Bio oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution   (Japan)

Author keywords

Machine vision; Packing; Soft handling; Strawberry

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION ERRORS; FRUIT WEIGHT; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; MANUAL OPERATIONS; PACKING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; PROCESS TIME; PRODUCTION AREA; SINGLE LAYER; SOFT HANDLING; STRAWBERRY; STRAWBERRY PRODUCTION;

COMPUTER VISION; CONVEYORS; PACKING;

FRUITS;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 84867256865     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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