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We present an autonomous aerial system for safe and efficient through-the-canopy fruit counting. Aerial robot applications in large-scale orchards face significant challenges due to the complexity of fine-tuning flight paths based on…
Monitoring orchards at the individual tree or fruit level throughout the growth season is crucial for plant phenotyping and horticultural resource optimization, such as chemical use and yield estimation. We present a 4D spatio-temporal…
There is a growing need for robotic apple harvesting due to decreasing availability and rising cost in labor. Towards the goal of developing a viable robotic system for apple harvesting, this paper presents synergistic mechatronic design…
Precise segmentation of irregular and densely arranged components is essential for robotic disassembly and material recovery in electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. This study evaluates the impact of model architecture and scale on…
The future of the agriculture industry is intertwined with automation. Accurate fruit detection, yield estimation, and harvest time estimation are crucial for optimizing agricultural practices. These tasks can be carried out by robots to…
As technology progresses, smart automated systems will serve an increasingly important role in the agricultural industry. Current existing vision systems for yield estimation face difficulties in occlusion and scalability as they utilize a…
In orchard automation, dense foliage during the canopy season severely occludes tree structures, minimizing visibility to various canopy parts such as trunks and branches, which limits the ability of a machine vision system. However, canopy…
The automation of material handling in warehouses increasingly relies on robust, low cost perception systems for forklifts and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs). This work presents a vision based framework for pallet and pallet hole…
Vision Foundation Models trained via large-scale self-supervised learning have demonstrated strong generalization in visual perception; however, their practical role and performance limits in agricultural settings remain insufficiently…
Deep object detection models have achieved notable successes in recent years, but one major obstacle remains: the requirement for a large amount of training data. Obtaining such data is a tedious process and is mainly time consuming,…
In commercial fruit farming, managing the light distribution through canopies is important because the amount and distribution of solar energy that is harvested by each tree impacts the production of fruit quantity and quality. It is…
Monitoring and managing the growth and quality of fruits are very important tasks. To effectively train deep learning models like YOLO for real-time fruit detection, high-quality image datasets are essential. However, such datasets are…
Litchi is a high-value fruit, yet traditional manual selection methods are increasingly inadequate for modern production demands. Integrating UAV-based aerial imagery with deep learning offers a promising solution to enhance efficiency and…
In order to promote agricultural automatic picking and yield estimation technology, this project designs a set of automatic detection, positioning and counting algorithms for grape bunches, and applies it to agricultural robots. The Yolov3…
In this research, an integrated detection model, Swin-transformer-YOLOv5 or Swin-T-YOLOv5, was proposed for real-time wine grape bunch detection to inherit the advantages from both YOLOv5 and Swin-transformer. The research was conducted on…
Manual pruning of radiata pine trees presents significant safety risks due to their substantial height and the challenging terrains in which they thrive. To address these risks, this research proposes the development of a drone-based…
Fruit size and leaf area are important indicators for plant health and are of interest for plant nutrient management, plant protection and harvest. In this research, an image-based method for measuring the fruit volume as well as the leaf…
This paper presents the development of an industrial fall detection system utilizing YOLOv8 variants, enhanced by our proposed augmentation pipeline to increase dataset variance and improve detection accuracy. Among the models evaluated,…
This research was a part of a project that developed mobile robots that performed targeted pollen spraying and automated harvesting in pergola structured kiwifruit orchards. Multiple kiwifruit detachment mechanisms were designed and field…