Deliberation on design strategies of automatic harvesting systems: A survey

Robotics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 194-222

  Bachche, Shivaji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

End effectors; Fruit harvesting manipulator; Fruit harvesting robots; Fruit picking robots; Greenhouse robots; Multispectral imaging; Recognition system; Robot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977170092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22186581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/robotics4020194     Document Type: Review

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