Analysis of a motion planning problem for sweet-pepper harvesting in a dense obstacle environment

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 85-97

  Bac, C Wouter ^a   Roorda, Tim ^a   Reshef, Roi ^b   Berman, Sigal ^b   Hemming, Jochen ^a   van Henten, Eldert J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Grasp pose; Motion planning; Rapidly exploring random trees; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CROPS; END EFFECTORS; FRUITS; HARVESTING; LOCATION; MANIPULATORS; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOTION PLANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; FRUIT HARVESTING; GOAL CONFIGURATION; GRASP POSE; INFLUENCING PARAMETERS; MOTION PLANNING PROBLEMS; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREES;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84937160004     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.07.004     Document Type: Article

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