A survey of robotic harvesting systems and enabling technologies

L Droukas, Z Doulgeri, NL Tsakiridis… - Journal of Intelligent & …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and
applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products …

Soft robotic grippers for crop handling or harvesting: A review

JF Elfferich, D Dodou, C Della Santina - Ieee Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nowadays, harvesting delicate and high-value fruits, vegetables, and edible fungi requires a
large input of manual human labor. The relatively low wages and many health problems the …

Development of a sweet pepper harvesting robot

B Arad, J Balendonck, R Barth… - Journal of field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the development, testing and validation of SWEEPER, a robot for
harvesting sweet pepper fruit in greenhouses. The robotic system includes a six degrees of …

[HTML][HTML] Robotics in greenhouses. Sco** review

JA Sánchez-Molina, F Rodríguez, JC Moreno… - … and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the main initiatives to increase the profit, production, and quality of greenhouse
horticulture, as well as its sustainability, is the use of robots. This paper focusses on the state …

An extensive review of mobile agricultural robotics for field operations: focus on cotton harvesting

KG Fue, WM Porter, EM Barnes, GC Rains - AgriEngineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this review, we examine opportunities and challenges for 21st-century robotic agricultural
cotton harvesting research and commercial development. The paper reviews opportunities …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic tomato and peduncle location system based on computer vision for use in robotized harvesting

M Benavides, M Cantón-Garbín, JA Sánchez-Molina… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Protected agriculture is a field in which the use of automatic systems is a key factor. In fact,
the automatic harvesting of delicate fruit has not yet been perfected. This issue has received …

Design and evaluation of a modular robotic plum harvesting system utilizing soft components

J Brown, S Sukkarieh - Journal of Field Robotics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The human labor required for tree crop harvesting is a major cost component in fruit
production and is increasing. To address this, many existing research works have sought to …

Multimodal mobile robotic dataset for a typical Mediterranean greenhouse: The greenbot dataset

F Cañadas-Aránega, JL Blanco-Claraco, JC Moreno… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an innovative dataset designed explicitly for challenging agricultural
environments, such as greenhouses, where precise location is crucial, but GNNS accuracy …

Design and test of a gripper prototype for horticulture products

M Russo, M Ceccarelli, B Corves, M Hüsing… - Robotics and Computer …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the design of a gripper for horticulture product gras**. The design
solution has been achieved by means of a systematic approach by evaluating all the …

[HTML][HTML] Autonomous collaborative mobile robot for greenhouses: Design, development, and validation tests

F Cañadas-Aránega, JC Moreno… - Smart Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper describes the development of a mobile agricultural robot capable of performing
high-capacity transport tasks within greenhouses in presence of people or other agricultural …