Autonomous robot for small-scale NFT systems

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2012, ASABE 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 678-685

  Agrawal, Dhruv ^a   Long, Guoming Alex ^a   Tanke, Niels ^a   Kohanbash, David ^a   Kantor, George ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Hydroponics; Manipulation; Microsoft kinect; NFT; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CROPS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTS; SEED; VISUAL SERVOING;

3D IMAGING SYSTEM; CAPITAL INVESTMENT; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HYDROPONICS; MANIPULATION; MICROSOFT; NFT; NUTRIENT FILM TECHNIQUES; PICK AND PLACE; ROBOT PATH-PLANNING; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SINGLE ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84871726890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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