The identification of any form of social learning, imitation, copying or mimicry presupposes a notion of correspondence between two autonomous agents. Judging whether a behavior has been transmitted socially requires the observer to identify a mapping between the demonstrator and the imitator. If the demonstrator and imitator have similar bodies, e.g. are animals of the same species, of similar...

The development of autonomous robots for agricultural applications includes motion planning, fruit picking, and collision avoidance with surrounding environments, these become challenging tasks. For harvesting applications, robust control the manipulator is needed effective robot. Several combinations Proportional(P)- Integrative(I)- Derivative(D) controllers are modelled a simulation study was...

Harvest-aid platforms are used in modern orchards to improve manual harvesting efficiency, safety, and ergonomics. Typically, workers stand at pre-set heights on a platform’s multi-level deck, each worker harvests fruits inside canopy zone that is defined by the lowest highest reach of worker’s arms. However, fruit distributions non-uniform, picking speeds vary, thus generating mismatch between...

The task of gripping has been identified as the rate-limiting step in development tree-fruit harvesting systems. There is, however, no set universally adopted ‘specifications’ with standardized measurement procedures for characterization gripper performance harvest soft tree fruit. A metrics were defined evaluation end effectors used based on (i) laboratory-based trials using termed ‘picking ar...

Kiwifruit harvesting with robotics can be troublesome due to the clustering feature. The gripper of end effector will easily cause unstable fruit grasping, or bending and separation action interfere neighboring because an inappropriate grasping angle, which further affect success rate. Therefore, predicting correct angle for each guide safely approach, grasp, bend separate fruit. To improve rat...

This work proposes the development of an embedded real-time fruit detection system for future automatic fruit harvesting. The proposed embedded system is based on an ARM Cortex-M4 (STM32F407VGT6) processor and an Omnivision OV7670 color camera. The future goal of this embedded vision system will be to control a robotized arm to automatically select and pick some fruit directly from the tree. Th...

Controlling robots to perform tasks via natural language is one of the most challenging topics in human-robot interaction. In this work, we present a robot system that follows unconstrained instructions pick and place arbitrary objects effectively resolves ambiguities through dialogues. Our approach infers their relationships from input images expressions can accordance with spatial relations e...

Apple scald is a non-parasitic storage disease that causes great losses to growers and distributors of susceptible varieties. It is believed to be caused by volatile products given off by the fruit (1). Partial remedies for the disease have been known for some time. Delayed picking was suggested by POWELL and FULTON (3) oiled paper wrappers by BROOKS, COOLEY, and FISHER (1), and waxing, and air...