The evolution of harvesting tools and equipment for horticultural crops has significantly
shaped agricultural practices over time. This review paper provides a comprehensive …

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•Aims to provide machine vision system for automated harvesting.•A vision system
for detecting branches in full-foliage canopy of cherry trees was developed.•Branch …

Walnut (Juglans regia L.) is a highly valuable crop and is widely used as a food, medicine,
and industrial product. Studying walnut detachment force is an important prerequisite for bed …

Mechanized harvesting technologies with shaking systems for fruit industry have been
widely investigated and significantly developed over the past several decades which were …

Highlights•More tilting and beam-column motions are found in vibration harvesting.•Fruit
detaching time may be improved using properly designed trellis system.•14 Hz vibration …

Mechanical damage caused by fruit-to-fruit impact is a major challenge for mechanical
harvesting of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn) fruits. Guiwei litchi fruits were used to study the …

Fruit bruise damage induced by mechanical impact is the most critical obstacle for the
application of mechanical harvesting on fresh-market sweet cherries. One of main sources of …

The fruit harvesting is a key factor involving both product quality and profitability. Particularly,
mechanical harvesting of traditional oil olive orchards is hint by tree training system for …

This review provides an overview of apple detection and localization using image analysis
and artificial intelligence techniques for enabling robotic fruit harvesting in orchard …