State-of-the-art robotic grippers, grasping and control strategies, as well as their applications in agricultural robots: A review

B Zhang, Y Xie, J Zhou, K Wang, Z Zhang - Computers and Electronics in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Grasping, carrying and placing of objects are the fundamental capabilities and common
operations for robots and robotic manipulators. Grippers are the most essential components …

Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming

RR Shamshiri, C Weltzien, IA Hameed, IJ Yule… - 2018 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Digital farming is the practice of modern technologies such as sensors, robotics, and data
analysis for shifting from tedious operations to continuously automated processes. This …

Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
This review investigates the research effort, developments and innovation in agricultural
robots for field operations, and the associated concepts, principles, limitations and gaps …

A review of key techniques of vision-based control for harvesting robot

Y Zhao, L Gong, Y Huang, C Liu - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2016 - Elsevier
Although there is a rapid development of agricultural robotic technologies, a lack of access
to robust fruit recognition and precision picking capabilities has limited the commercial …

Agricultural robots for field operations. Part 2: Operations and systems

A Bechar, C Vigneault - Biosystems engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This part of our review of the research, developments and innovation in agricultural robots
for field operations, focuses on characteristics, performance measures, agricultural tasks …

Fruit pose recognition and directional orderly grasping strategies for tomato harvesting robots

J Rong, P Wang, T Wang, L Hu, T Yuan - Computers and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prospect of robotic harvesting in greenhouse tomato production has received much
attention in the tomato industry in recent years, but research into the replacement of manual …

Dual-arm cooperation and implementing for robotic harvesting tomato using binocular vision

X Ling, Y Zhao, L Gong, C Liu, T Wang - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dual-arm cooperation is considered as an available approach to improve the poor efficiency
by autonomous robotic harvesting. While, cooperating arm movements using visual …

Collision-free motion planning for the litchi-picking robot

L Ye, J Duan, Z Yang, X Zou, M Chen… - Computers and Electronics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In unstructured environments, picking robots could collide with branches, thus reducing the
success rate of picking. In this study, collision-free motion planning is performed in two steps …

[HTML][HTML] Robotics in greenhouses. Scoping review

JA Sánchez-Molina, F Rodríguez, JC Moreno… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the main initiatives to increase the profit, production, and quality of greenhouse
horticulture, as well as its sustainability, is the use of robots. This paper focusses on the state …

Research on flexible end-effectors with humanoid grasp function for small spherical fruit picking

F Zhang, Z Chen, Y Wang, R Bao, X Chen, S Fu… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
The rapid, stable, and undamaged picking of small-sized spherical fruits are one of the key
technologies to improve the level of intelligent picking robots and reduce grading …