Orchards occupy large planting areas in China, which were mainly concentrated in hilly and
mountainous regions. Due to the impact from topographical conditions and planting …

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 …

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 …

Robotic apple harvesting requires the motion planning of a series of movements to perform
the efficient picking of fruit without bruises. The investigation of the underlying characteristics …

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

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

During the picking process of the apple harvesting robot, the attitude of the end effector
holding the apple and the movement method of separating the apple directly affect the …

This study examines the means of reducing the damage to the branches of Camellia oleifera
in the process of vibration picking and solving the problems of low equipment-development …

Standardized planting architecture is gradually replacing traditional hedge pattern.
However, the development of harvesters adapted to the standardized planting architecture is …

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 …