A methodology of orchard architecture design for an optimal harvesting robot

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 166, Issue , 2018, Pages 126-137

  Bloch, Victor ^a,b   Degani, Amir ^a   Bechar, Avital ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Optimal environment design; Optimal tree architecture; Robot working environment; Robotic harvesting; Task based optimisation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; FARMS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; HARVESTING; KINEMATICS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ORCHARDS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL KINEMATICS; OPTIMISATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMAL DESIGN; TREE ARCHITECTURES; WORKING ENVIRONMENT;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 85038005476     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2017.11.006     Document Type: Article

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