Sensor-based stooped work monitoring in robot-aided strawberry harvesting

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2014, ASABE 2014

Volumn 7, Issue , 2014, Pages 5027-5038

  Anjom, Farangis Khosro ^a   Rehal, Richinder S ^b   Fathallah, Fadi A ^b   Wilken, Kent D ^b   Vougioukas, Stavros G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Robots; Sensors; Stooped work; Strawberries

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ERGONOMICS; FRUITS; HARVESTING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; UNLOADING;

ABSOLUTE ORIENTATION; FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; HUMAN-ROBOT COLLABORATION; LOW BACK DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS; STOOPED WORK; STRAWBERRIES; UNLOADING STATIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84911482886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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