Accurate position detecting during asparagus spear harvesting using a laser sensor

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 105-110

  Sakai, Hiroki ^a   Shiigi, Tomoo ^a   Kondo, Naoshi ^a   Ogawa, Yuichi ^a   Taguchi, Nobuyoshi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER OF NAGASAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asparagus; Harvesting robot; Laser sensor; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AGRICULTURE; HARVESTING; ROBOTS;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS SPEARS; COLOR TEMPERATURES; HARVESTING ROBOT; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; LASER SENSOR; POSITION DETECTING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84880891997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1881-8366(13)80019-5     Document Type: Article

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