Harvest-order planning for a multiarm robotic harvester

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-81

  Zion, B ^a   Mann, M ^b   Levin, D ^a   Shilo, A ^a   Rubinstein, D ^b   Shmulevich, I ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Harvest planning; Melon; Multiarm robot; Robotic harvest

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CROPS; FRUITS; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS;

CARTESIAN MANIPULATOR; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; HARVEST PLANNING; KINEMATIC CONDITION; LATERAL ACCELERATION; MELON; MULTI-ARM ROBOTS; RECTANGULAR FRAME;

MANIPULATORS;

ALGORITHM; FRUIT; HARVESTING; HEURISTICS; HORTICULTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84895963454     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Baeten J., Donné K., Boedrij S., Beckers W., Claesen E. Autonomous fruit picking machine: a robotic apple harvester. Field Service Robotics 2008, 42:531-539.
2. Bechar A., Edan Y. Human-robot collaboration for improved target recognition of agricultural robots. Ind. Robot 2003, 30:432-436.
3. Bozma H.I., Kalalioglu M.E. Multirobot coordination in pick-and-place tasks on a moving conveyor. Robot. Computer-Integrated Manuf. 2012, 28:530-538.
4. Edan Y., Miles G.E. Design of an agricultural robot for harvesting melons. Trans. ASAE 1993, 36:593-603.
5. Edan Y., Miles G.E. Systems-engineering of agricultural robot design. IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. 1994, 24:1259-1265.
6. Edan Y., Rogozin D., Flash T., Miles G.E. Robotic melon harvesting. IEEE Trans. Robot. Automat. 2000, 16:831-835.
7. Foglia M.M., Reina G. Agricultural robot for radicchio harvesting. J. Field Robot. 2006, 23:363-367.
8. Gilmore P.C., Hoffman A.J. A characterization of comparability graphs and of interval graphs. Can. J. Math. 1964, 16:539-548.
9. Hwang H., Kim S.-C. Development of multi-functional tele-operative modular robotic system for greenhouse watermelon. IEEE/ASME Int. Conf. Adv. Intelligent Mech. 2003, 1344-1349.
10. Kapach K., Barnea E., Marion R., Edan Y., Ben-Shahar O. Computer vision for fruit harvesting robots - state of the art and challenges ahead. Int. J. Comput. Vision Robot. 2012, 3:4-34.
11. Kawamura N., Namikawa K., Fujiura T., Ura M. Study on agricultural robot (Part 1). J. Japanese Soc. Agric. Mach. 1984, 46:353-358.
12. Levkovitch, G., Kaplan, M., 2010. Production cost in labor days in selected labor-intensive agricultural crops. In: Scientist, T.C. (Ed.), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Israel.
13. Mann, M.P., Shmulevich, I., Rubinstein, D., Zion, B., 2014. Motion planning of a mobile Cartesian manipulator for optimal harvesting of 2-D crops. Trans. ASABE, in press.
14. Mann, M.P., Zion, B., Rubinstein, D., Linker, R., Shmulevich, I., 2014. Minimum time kinematic motions of a Cartesian mobile manipulator for a fruit harvesting robot. J. Dynam. Syst. Measurement Control-Trans. ASME, in press.
15. Mitrovic-Minic S., Krishnamurti R. The Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows: Bounds for the Minimum Number of Vehicles. School of Computing Science 2002, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
16. Monta M., Kondo N., Ting K.C. End-effectors for tomato harvesting robot. Artif. Intell. Rev. 1998, 12:11-25.
17. Murakami N., Otsuka K., Inoue K., Sugimoto M. Development of robotic cabbage harvester. (Part 2). Field test by developed hand. J. Japanese Soc. Agric. Mach. 1999, 61:93-100.
18. Muscato G., Prestifilippo M., Abbate N., Rizzuto I. A prototype of an orange picking robot: past history, the new robot and experimental results. Ind. Robot 2005, 32:128-138.
19. Sakai S., Iida M., Osuka K., Umeda M. Design and control of a heavy material handling manipulator for agricultural robots. Auton. Robots 2008, 25:189-204.
20. Umeda M., Kubota S., Iida M. Development of "STORK", a watermelon-harvesting robot. Artif. Life Robot. 1999, 3:143-147.
21. Weisstein, E.W., 2013. Interval Graph. Wolfram MathWorld.
22. Wolf I., Bar-Or J., Edan Y., Peiper U.M. Developing grippers for a melon harvesting robot 1990, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, MI, USA.
23. Yannakakis M., Gavril F. The maximum k-colorable subgraph problem for chordal graphs. Inform. Process. Lett. 1987, 24:133-137.