This review investigates the research effort, developments and innovation in agricultural
robots for field operations, and the associated concepts, principles, limitations and gaps …

Estimations of world population growth urgently require improving the efficiency of
agricultural processes, as well as improving safety for people and environmental …

This paper presents the development, testing and validation of SWEEPER, a robot for
harvesting sweet pepper fruit in greenhouses. The robotic system includes a six degrees of …

This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

In this paper, we present a recent survey on robotic grippers. In many cases, modern
grippers outperform their older counterparts which are now stronger, more repeatable, and …

This paper evaluates a robot developed for autonomous harvesting of sweet peppers in a
commercial greenhouse. Objectives were to assess robot performance under unmodified …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and
applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products …

This article presents an innovative, motor-driven, three-finger compliant gripper for adaptive
grasping of size-varied delicate objects. An optimized compliant finger design is identified …

Fruit detachment is one of the essential tasks in apple harvest. The resistance of detaching
an apple from the tree is largely influenced by picking patterns. This research aimed at …

Operational efficiency is an important bottleneck in the industrialization of apple picking
robots. The action planning of grasping and picking is key to improving the operational …