Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting: Recent developments and future challenges

H Zhou, X Wang, W Au, H Kang, C Chen - Precision Agriculture, 2022 - Springer
Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting have been actively developed over the past decades to
bridge the increasing gap between feeding a rapidly growing population and limited labour …

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 …

Selective harvesting robotics: current research, trends, and future directions

G Kootstra, X Wang, PM Blok, J Hemming… - Current Robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The world-wide demand for agricultural products is rapidly
growing. However, despite the growing population, labor shortage becomes a limiting factor …

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 …

Visual perception enabled industry intelligence: state of the art, challenges and prospects

J Yang, C Wang, B Jiang, H Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual perception refers to the process of organizing, identifying, and interpreting visual
information in environmental awareness and understanding. With the rapid progress of …

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 …

A field‐tested robotic harvesting system for iceberg lettuce

S Birrell, J Hughes, JY Cai, F Iida - Journal of Field Robotics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture provides an unique opportunity for the development of robotic systems; robots
must be developed which can operate in harsh conditions and in highly uncertain and …

Agricultural robotics

SG Vougioukas - Annual review of control, robotics, and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
A key goal of contemporary agriculture is to dramatically increase production of food, feed,
fiber, and biofuel products in a sustainable fashion, facing the pressure of diminishing farm …

An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation

K Zhang, K Lammers, P Chu, Z Li… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Decreased availability and rising cost in labor poses a serious threat to the long‐term
profitability and sustainability of the apple industry in the United States and many other …

[HTML][HTML] Design and simulation of an integrated end-effector for picking kiwifruit by robot

L Mu, G Cui, Y Liu, Y Cui, L Fu, Y Gejima - Information Processing in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The harvesting of fresh kiwifruit is a labor-intensive operation that accounts for more than
25% of annual production costs. Mechanized harvesting technologies are thus being …