Manual harvesting of fruits is an expensive, time‐consuming, and labor‐intensive operation.
Due to labor shortages in the late 1950s, mechanical harvesters were developed to reduce …

Highlights•Mechanical harvesting systems for pistachio trees were studied.•Vibration
transmission through the pistachio tree canopy was measured and analysed.•Wavelet …

The overall low detachment percentage in citrus mechanical harvesting is a concerning
problem. Studies of the effects of tine-shaking frequency and penetrating depth on fruit …

Intelligent detection is a key technology in precision agriculture. As items of different color
cluster in different non-overlapping elliptical regions, this study proposed a method for …

Highlights•Vibration transmission from harvester to hedgerow is close to 60%.•The main
direction of vibration is transverse to the harvester's displacement.•For 62% of the tree …

Highlights•Tested citrus branches showed a similar frequency response to each
other.•Three natural frequencies at 2, 7 and 11 Hz were identified in branch …

Research on the mechanical harvesting of pineapples is currently in its early stages. The
purpose of this study is to provide a design and configure a method for multi-flexible …

Canopy shaking system is one of the research hotspots for large-scale mechanized fruits
harvesting. Shaking rods considered as one of the essential components of canopy shaker …

Trunk shakers are the most widely used mechanical harvesting machines for harvesting nut
trees, including pistachio in California. Improvement of these machines requires a better …

Production of California table olives has declined significantly in recent years due to hand
harvesting costs, often over 60% of gross return. Mechanical harvesting could sharply …