Towards autonomous selective harvesting: A review of robot perception, robot design, motion planning and control

V Rajendran, B Debnath, S Mghames… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides an overview of the current state‐of‐the‐art in selective harvesting robots
(SHRs) and their potential for addressing the challenges of global food production. SHRs …

Tactile-sensing technologies: Trends, challenges and outlook in agri-food manipulation

W Mandil, V Rajendran, K Nazari… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tactile sensing plays a pivotal role in achieving precise physical manipulation tasks and
extracting vital physical features. This comprehensive review paper presents an in-depth …

Proactive slip control by learned slip model and trajectory adaptation

K Nazari, W Mandil… - Conference on Robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper presents a novel control approach to dealing with a slip during robotic
manipulative movements. Slip is a major cause of failure in many robotic gras** and …

Acoustic soft tactile skin (AST skin)

W Mandil, K Nazari, S Parsons… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel acoustic soft tactile (AST) skin technology operating with sound
waves. In this innovative approach, the sound waves generated by a speaker travel in …

Action Conditioned Tactile Prediction: a case study on slip prediction

K Nazari, W Mandil, A Ghalamzan Esfahani - 2022 - repository.lincoln.ac.uk
Tactile predictive models can be useful across several robotic manipulation tasks, eg robotic
pushing, robotic gras**, slip avoidance, and in-hand manipulation. However, available …

[PDF][PDF] Selective Harvesting Robots: A Review

S Vishnu Rajendran, UK Lincoln, B Debnath… - researchgate.net
Climate change and population growth have created significant challenges for global food
production, and ensuring food security requires a resilient food-production system. One of …