Autonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 872-879

  Lehnert, Christopher ^a   English, Andrew ^a   McCool, Christopher ^a   Tow, Adam W ^a   Perez, Tristan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural automation; dexterous manipulation; mechanism design of manipulators

Indexed keywords

CROPS; MACHINE DESIGN;

CROPPING SYSTEMS; DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION; FIELD TRIAL; MECHANISM DESIGN; SWEET PEPPER; VISION ALGORITHMS;

HARVESTING;

EID: 85058585408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23773766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2017.2655622     Document Type: Article

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