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 …

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 …

Every apple destined for the fresh market is picked by the human hand. Despite extensive
research over the past four decades, there are no mechanical apple harvesters for the fresh …

This paper presented an approach using a pendulum method to measure bruise damage of
apples to overcome the limitation of the drop test on impact control on a specific fruit zone …

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 …

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 …

Highlights•A main stem-split stem-berry plane double pendulum dynamic model is
proposed.•A discrete grape model was established based on the double pendulum …

A key task in robotic harvesting is collection of the picked fruit in a container. The usual
collection method reported in the literature is a pick-and-place technique where the robotic …

Highlights•Olive tree suckers reduce branch vibration.•Pre-harvest removal increases
branch maximum acceleration during forced vibration.•Pre-harvest sucker removal …