Recent advancements in three-dimensional (3D) scanning technology have broadened its
applicability across fields like reverse engineering and autonomous robot navigation, which …

For robotic harvesting of sweet-pepper fruits in greenhouses a sensor system is required to
detect and localize the fruits on the plants. Due to the complex structure of the plant, most …

Supervision of long-lasting extensive botanic experiments is a promising robotic application
that some recent technological advances have made feasible. Plant modeling for this …

Highlights•A statistical modelling methodology for fruit detectability is presented.•Descriptive
fruit detectability statistics are presented for single and multiple viewpoints.•Spatial and …

This article presents a new method for actively exploring a 3D workspace with the aim of
localizing relevant regions for a given task. Our method encodes the exploration route in a …

Active view planning for gathering data from an unexplored 3D complex scenario is a hard
and still open problem in the computer vision community. In this paper, we present a general …

Traditional multi-camera systems require a fixed calibration between cameras to provide the
solution at the correct scale, which places many limitations on its performance. This thesis …

The ability of a mobile robot to navigate reliably in an unknown environment depends on the
information perceived from its surroundings, usually available in the form of measurements …

Supervision of long-lasting extensive botanic exper-iments is a promising robotic application
that some recent technological advances have made feasible. Plant modelling for this …

Perception and manipulation of rigid objects has received a lot of attention, and several
solutions have been proposed. In contrast, dealing with deformable objects is a relatively …