This paper presents an innovative and intelligent robotic system for handling and laser
marking fruits. The laser marks on fruit skin are expected to replace the widely used fruit …

The challenges in developing a fruit harvesting robot are recognizing the fruit in the foliage
and detaching the fruit from the tree without damaging both the fruit and the tree. In large …

The first automated grading facilities for fruit and vegetables became available more than 10
years ago. Recently, machine vision and near infrared (NIR) technologies as well as …

Huge harvest and post-harvest losses in conventional processes and methods demands
precise applications of agricultural inputs. Computer vision based robotic picking is one of …

The process of packing items without the intervention of a manual worker is referred to as
automatic product packaging. Over the years, automated packaging systems have …

The introduction of robotics in certain activities such as fruit harvesting, weed control,
monitoring, spraying, soil handling, autonomous navigation, among others, contribute …

A grading robot system, which automatically provides fruits from containers and inspects all
sides of the fruits was developed. The robot system consists of two fruit providing robots and …

The study was aimed to identify the problems and also to suggest some solutions for robotic
systems applications in harvesting of kiwi and apples. The results obtained show that …

The fruit and vegetable picking has posed a great challenge on the production and markets
during the harvest season. Manual picking cannot fully meet the rapid requirements of each …

This paper presents the preliminary design of a two-link planar manipulator for fresh market
apple catching. Rather than use the harvesting manipulator to place picked apples in a …