Development of an expert system based on wavelet transform and artificial neural networks for the ripe tomato harvesting robot

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 699-705

  Arefi, Arman ^a   Motlagh, Asad Modarres ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Greenhouse; Image processing; Robot; Tomato; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878033434     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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