Integration of perception capabilities in gripper design using graspability maps

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 98-113

  Eizicovits, Danny ^a   van Tuijl, Bart ^b   Berman, Sigal ^a   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural robots; Grasping; Gripper design; Sensing; Sweet pepper harvesting

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; AGRICULTURE; MACHINE DESIGN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; GRASPING; GRIPPER DESIGNS; SENSING; SWEET PEPPER;

GRIPPERS;

EID: 84969963336     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.016     Document Type: Article

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