A novel 3D laser vision system for robotic apple harvesting

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

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 5290-5301

  Feng, Juan ^a,b   Liu, Gang ^a   Wang, Shengwei ^a,c   Zeng, Lihua ^a,b   Ren, Wen ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Depth image; Laser vision; Recognition; Robotic harvesting; Shape features

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FRUITS; LASERS; ORCHARDS; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3-D VISION; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; CMOS CAMERA; DEPTH IMAGE; DEPTH INFORMATION; DISTANCE INFORMATION; FRUIT HARVESTING; FRUIT SIZE; FRUIT TREES; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; LASER RANGE FINDERS; LASER VISION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; LINEAR MOTION; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; PRODUCT QUALITY; PRODUCTION COST; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; RECOGNITION; SENSING PERFORMANCE; SHAPE FEATURES; VISION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84871807512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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