Mobile Robot System for Selective Asparagus Harvesting

Simulation of Harvesting Asparagus: Mechanical Vs Manual

Path Following and Velocity Optimizing for an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot

In this paper, the path following controller of an omnidirectional mobile robot (OMR) has been extended in such a way that the forward velocity has been optimized and the actuator velocity constraints have been taken into account. Both have been attained through the proposed model predictive control (MPC) framework. The forward velocity has been included into the objective function, while the a...

A Machine Vision System for the Apple Harvesting Robot

One of the requirements of a fruit harvesting robot is the ability to recognize and locate fruit from the leaf and branch portions; machine vision system is one of the methods used to detect the location of the fruit. This paper showed the development of a machine vision algorithm that would guide an apple harvesting hand prototype. The objectives of this study were to differentiate the fruit f...

Agricultural robot for radicchio harvesting

In the last few years, robotics has been increasingly adopted in agriculture to improve productivity and efficiency. This paper presents recent and current work at the Politecnico of Bari, in collaboration with the University of Lecce, in the field of agriculture robotics. A cost effective robotic arm is introduced for the harvesting of radicchio, which employs visual localization of the plants...

Vision System Design for Mobile Robot Tracking

This chapter introduces a complete thematic of vision system for mobile robot tracking and control. It consists of a global vision system for estimation of positions and orientations of mobile robots and methods for improvement of bad operating conditions such as noise, camera lens distortion and non-uniform illumination. The basic operation of a vision system is divided into two steps. In the ...