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Automating tasks in outdoor agricultural fields poses significant challenges due to environmental variability, unstructured terrain, and diverse crop characteristics. We present a robotic system for autonomous pepper harvesting designed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Chung Hee Kim , Abhisesh Silwal , George Kantor

Many automated operations in agriculture, such as weeding and plant counting, require robust and accurate object detectors. Robotic fruit harvesting is one of these, and is an important technology to address the increasing labour shortages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jasper Brown , Salah Sukkarieh

Robotic manipulation of fresh fruits and vegetables, including the grasping of multiple loose items, has a strong industrial need but it still is a challenging task for robotic manipulation. This paper outlines the distinctive manipulation…

The population explosion of the 21st century has adversely affected the natural resources with restricted availability of cultivable land, increased average temperatures due to global warming, and carbon footprint resulting in a drastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Md. Mahadi Hasan , Muhammad Usama Islam , Muhammad Jafar Sadeq

In this research, a fully neural network based visual perception framework for autonomous apple harvesting is proposed. The proposed framework includes a multi-function neural network for fruit recognition and a Pointnet grasp estimation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hanwen Kang , Chao Chen

The emergence of harvesting robotics offers a promising solution to the issue of limited agricultural labor resources and the increasing demand for fruits. Despite notable advancements in the field of harvesting robotics, the utilization of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Tao Li , Feng Xie , Ya Xiong , Qingchun Feng

Agriculture industries often face challenges in manual tasks such as planting, harvesting, fertilizing, and detection, which can be time consuming and prone to errors. The "Agricultural Robotic System" project addresses these issues through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Yang Wenkai , Ji Ruihang , Yue Yiran , Gu Zhonghan , Shu Wanyang , Sam Ge Shuzhi

This project aims to develop and demonstrate a ground robot with intelligence capable of conducting semi-autonomous farm operations for different low-heights vegetable crops referred as Agriculture Application Robot(AAR). AAR is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Vinay Ummadi , Aravind Gundlapalle , Althaf Shaik , Shaik Mohammad Rafi B

Robots have revolutionized our way of life in recent years.One of the domains that has not yet completely benefited from the robotic automation is the agricultural sector. Agricultural Robotics should complement humans in the arduous tasks…

Recent developments in the domain of agricultural robotics have resulted in development of complex and efficient systems. Most of the land owners in the South Asian region are low income farmers. The agricultural experience for them is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Muhammad Zubair Ahmad , Ayyaz Akhtar , Abdul Qadeer Khan , Amir A. Khan

Most existing robotic harvesters utilize a unimanual approach; a single arm grasps the crop and detaches it, either via a detachment movement, or by cutting its stem with a specially designed gripper/cutter end-effector. However, such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Sotiris Stavridis , Dimitrios Papageorgiou , Leonidas Droukas , Zoe Doulgeri

The integration of augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR), and virtual reality (VR) technologies in agriculture has shown significant promise in enhancing various agricultural practices. Mobile robots have also been adopted as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Caio Mucchiani , Dimitrios Chatziparaschis , Konstantinos Karydis

Challenges in strawberry picking made selective harvesting robotic technology demanding. However, selective harvesting of strawberries is complicated forming a few scientific research questions. Most available solutions only deal with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Soran Parsa , Bappaditya Debnath , Muhammad Arshad Khan , Amir Ghalamzan E.

As global demand for fruits and vegetables continues to rise, the agricultural industry faces challenges in securing adequate labor. Robotic harvesting devices offer a promising solution to solve this issue. However, harvesting delicate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Johannes F. Elfferich , Ebrahim Shahabi , Cosimo Della Santina , Dimitra Dodou

This paper provides an overview of how recent advances in machine learning and the availability of data from earth observing satellites can dramatically improve our ability to automatically map croplands over long period and over large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Xiaowei Jia , Ankush Khandelwal , Vipin Kumar

Plant diseases are major causes of production losses and may have a significant impact on the agricultural sector. Detecting pests as early as possible can help increase crop yields and production efficiency. Several robotic monitoring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Adi Yehoshua , Yael Edan

This paper presents an integrated system for performing precision harvesting missions using a legged harvester. Our harvester performs a challenging task of autonomous navigation and tree grabbing in a confined, GPS denied forest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Edo Jelavic , Dominic Jud , Pascal Egli , Marco Hutter

Using robots to harvest sweet peppers in protected cropping environments has remained unsolved despite considerable effort by the research community over several decades. In this paper, we present the robotic harvester, Harvey, designed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Chris Lehnert , Chris McCool , Inkyu Sa , Tristan Perez

Robotic Grasping has always been an active topic in robotics since grasping is one of the fundamental but most challenging skills of robots. It demands the coordination of robotic perception, planning, and control for robustness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Hanbo Zhang , Jian Tang , Shiguang Sun , Xuguang Lan

The agricultural sector is rapidly evolving to meet growing global food demands, yet tasks like fruit and vegetable handling remain labor-intensive, causing inefficiencies and post-harvest losses. Automation, particularly selective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shahid Ansari , Vivek Gupta , Bishakh Bhattacharya